On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 07:39, Jon maddog Hall wrote: > O.K., here is the situation: > > Mixture of Windows, Unix and Linux systems, the person needs to do these > things over the net, preferably with a graphical interface. > > Workload Monitoring
I presume you mean Workload Monitoring vis-a-vis system and not application (example: Oracle, SAP, ...) I've used Big Brother in the past with mixed results (it would go bezerk when things got out of sync). I'm now using gkrellm (no logging though), but its extensible and provides better real-time display of the system (more useful when your remote systems are being attacked). But gkrellm probably won't work for Windows or Unixes without /proc. > User Activity Monitoring > Automated Monitoring of Log Files I generally rely on logwatch for the above. Its all perl scripts, so should work on most Unix-based systems with similar log file formats. Probably won't work for Windows based servers without some work. > Process Monitoring If you're not thinking about sar, then I'm not sure what you mean by this - unless you're talking application level (but even that will need some clarification). > ideally you could also do this: > > Application Resource Management This seems to be highly dependent on the application. AFAIK, this facility is usually provided by the application (Oracle, ...) > Performance Management Again, these utilities are usually provided by the application - assuming you don't mean "Performance Measurment", of which there are numerous utilities "out there". > Availability Management Assuming you mean something akin to cluster management, HPTC consoles, ..., then this is usually provided by the cluster software - I know Veritas provides stuff for SunOS. And there are several libraries for "Linux Clusters", but they don't appear to have evolved into GUI utilities such Veritas' offering - yet. > Directory and File Management Errr - there's lots: Nautilus, Midnight Commander (or whatever), ... Again, I'm assuming you mean something that's GUI based and something that won't befuddle PHBs. > Are there any packages out there, either freeware or proprietary that do > much of these things? > > Don't spend a lot of time on this, it is an "exercise" that I am doing. The reason I like email over voice communications is that you can process interrupts while doing the communication. --Bruce
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