Server monitoring software - Need friends to go on

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Hi,
I'm author of xseg, a server monitoring software- currently pretty small and simple. I've to do much with it until it becomes a usable software. But while in the road, i look for friends to help me code and test.

Let me explain you the xseg.
Xseg is a flexible server monitoring software. It has nothing to do with other similart monitoring projects.
It's purpose is not just monitoring your server, but being flexible, so that you'll monitor your server better if you imagine better.
Now let's see some details:
xseg does not have any core monitoring coding(except 1 or 2 topics)
It's all based on flexibility so on other programs and your knowledge of system.
With xseg, you can say xseg to run shell command and print it's output. Here is a few screenshots:
http://mail.baskent.edu.tr/~20194562/images/xseg02ss.jpg
Here you can see the ftpcount and ftpwho parts. xseg does not have any internal ftpcount and ftpwho codes. It's just a configuration trick saying that run the ftpwho command and show the output in statics page.
This screenshot is from 0.1 version (released) which is a tiny preview version. For a long time i've been working with 0.2 version, which will have advanced features. Here let me show:
http://mail.baskent.edu.tr/~20194562/xseg0.2_output/stats.html If you look above link you'll see the graphic, which is arrives from flexibility of xseg.
Xseg can run commands and get output of the commands , log them and graph them. Here we see it.
[img:3195bce11c]http://mail.baskent.edu.tr/~20194562/xseg0.2_output/r.log.png[/img:3195bce11c]
Linux has environment variables, $PATH etc.
here we see the random. $RANDOM returns , random values everytime. Here in the conf file i said xseg to run the command "echo $RANDOM" and get it's return value , log the values and graph them. You see the output. Here comes the flexibility. What command you can imagine is avaible in xseg.

Xseg is also have support for lcd displays for your servers (working on with this feature)
[img:3195bce11c]http://xseg.sourceforge.net/images/xseglcd1.jpg[/img:3195bce11c] Xseg can output it's data an LCD display. Look this avi: http://xseg.sourceforge.net/xsegvideo.avi

Currently i'm adding a new feature. Regular Exp. support. So you can say xseg , open /proc/net/blabla, find the part about something, get it and graph it. Example? You want to graph your servers incoming / outgoing traffic (this is the easy part every program can do). But you want also error rate graphic for example. Here regexp feature of xseg comes.

xseg will have tons of feature. But my target is simple: "just flexibility".
You'll be only limited with yourself when using xseg.

Anyway, as i said in beginning i look for people to help me.
Thanks for reading this.

xseg web site: xseg.sf.net

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