From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 18 19:42:33 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 CD79E16A400 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 19:42:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from mail.stovebolt.com (mail.stovebolt.com [66.221.101.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8250643D48 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 19:42:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from [192.168.2.101] (adsl-66-142-191-85.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net [66.142.191.85]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.stovebolt.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 298FB114307 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 13:40:06 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 13:41:25 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <1B045D0C372087A86CFAD97F@Paul-Schmehls-Computer.local> In-Reply-To: <441C5D26.30506@aeternal.net> References: <441C5D26.30506@aeternal.net> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.0 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: System administration question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Paul Schmehl List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 19:42:33 -0000 --On March 18, 2006 8:19:02 PM +0100 Martin Hudec wrote: > > Paul Schmehl wrote: >> Is there a port or utility that allows you to monitor system stats by >> (either interactively or periodically) reading the various stat >> utilities (fstat, iostat, pstat or swapinfo, systat, top, vmstat, etc.) >> and sending a report to root that summarizes system condition? > > I am using my own shell script to send mail reports about various > conditions of system. > I thought about doing that as well, but I'm wondering if there is something that already exists. (No sense in reinventing the wheel.) Also, feeding the info to a database so trending information would be available as well would probably be a nice feature. > Also I am using stuff like nagios, munin to monitor my servers and to > provide me with notifications in case of incidents. > The problem I have is I have one server running everything: list software (mailman), smtp (postfix), imap (courier-imapd), web (apache13/mod_ssl), webmail (squirrelmail), dns (bind9) and bulletin board software (ultimatebb). The website gets over 5 million hits/month, so I don't want to add any more daemons, if I don't have to. Something that spawns a short-term shell or process daily in the early morning hours would probably be the best solution. Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/