From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 1 23:39:26 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E60B916B866 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 23:39:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 695B643D46 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 23:39:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 1907 invoked from network); 2 Jun 2006 09:39:25 +1000 Received: from 210-84-41-231.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO localhost) (210.84.41.231) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 2 Jun 2006 09:39:25 +1000 Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 09:39:21 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome To: "Atom Powers" Message-ID: <20060602093921.58fe20f7@localhost> In-Reply-To: References: <447EAE41.9090005@esiee.fr> <20060601231922.092460ea@localhost> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.2.0 (GTK+ 2.8.18; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Frank Bonnet , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system load mrtg ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 23:39:37 -0000 On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 11:21:35 -0700 "Atom Powers" wrote: > On 6/1/06, Norberto Meijome wrote: > > On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:07:13 +0200 > > Frank Bonnet wrote: > > > > > Hello > > > > > > I'm searching for some tools that are able to produce > > > some graphics ( understandables by managers ...) to > > > show the system load ( CPU . DISK I/O , memory ... etc etc ) > > > > > > > http://www.cacti.net/ > > > > Seconded. > I used cricket (an mrtg clone) for a long time. But cacti makes > setting up the hosts and graphs so much easier. (Although I still have > to figure out how to create custom data sources...) > they are not that hard to create - you need something that returns a series of values (as many as defined in your data source in cacti) and then feed that into the processor. I remember that the tricky bit was understanding how all the custom Cacti components plugged into cacti (i.e, custom data source, custom this and that ), rather than the feed of the data itself. I'll see if I can dig up some sample if you need me to. Regards, Beto