[BBLISA] Re: OSS Statistics and trend reporting for Linux/Solaris

[Paul Beltrani]

On 6/12/06, Paul Beltrani <spamgrinder at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone have suggestions for open-source solutions to track server
> utilization of Linux and possibly Solaris hosts?
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Thank you everyone for your replies.  To recap:

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SNMP/RRDTool/MRTG

RRDTool - Round Robin Database
A system to store and display time-series data.
http://www.rrdtool.org/
http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/

MRTG - Multi Router Traffic Grapher
Retrieves stats via SNMP and generates HTML with graphs of that data over time.
Works stand alone or with RRDTool
http://www.mrtg.org/
http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/

Cacti
Front end to RRDTool and MRTG
http://cacti.net/
(I hadn't seen this one before.  Thanks Alfred.)

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Nagios:
Very powerful monitoring systems.  Does much more than just gather stats.
http://www.nagios.org/

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Orca
Plots data from text files to HTML pages.  Works in conjunction with
data gathering scripts, orcallator (Solaris), procallator (Linux).
http://www.orcaware.com/