On Tuesday 22 Sep 2009, M.K.Pai wrote: > > To elaborate -- I have about 10 servers that send me mail every > > morning on their current status. The status includes disk and > > memory usage (currently df and free). At the moment I'm reading > > both outputs to figure out if the server is reaching its limits, > > but it would be nice if I could just glance at the mail and figure > > out how much disk and memory is being used without having to read > > the individual figures. Reading 100 numbers and correlating them > > early every morning is no fun, I can assure you :) > > Somewhat off topic, but I think the one possible solution would be to > receive less mail ! > > In your place, I'd want to figure out what correlation between > various system usage levels should trigger an alarm, among them disk > or mem usage, and send the mails only when the stats reach a little > below those triggers. That way I'd get mail only when I need to > worry. > > Is there a reason you really need to see all the raw data ?
Yes. I'm already using Nagios to monitor health of critical server parameters for some servers, but that's a different set of uses altogether. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur r...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
