How do you monitor your system?

69link · n00b Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 53 Location: Sweden

I would like to get ideas on howto monitor my server.

Today I got different consoles with:
* coloured tail of syslog etc.
* a hard to read "top" like program.

I want to:
* Monitor CPU, disk, network usage
* Monitor syslogs, iptables, snort, httpdlog, ftpdlog etc.
* have a nice desktop which automatically or easily boots into this "monitoring" mode.

Do you have:
* a screenshot of your desktop with above?

* tips on utilities or scripts to do the above?

Then please reply.

guero61 · l33t Joined: 14 Oct 2002 Posts: 811 Location: Behind you

http://www.gkrellm.net

Do a websearch for gkrellm and you'll find loads of screenshots

viperlin · Veteran Joined: 15 Apr 2003 Posts: 1319 Location: UK

yeh mine
[img:0473501aff]http://viperlin.gotdns.org/st/09_thumbnail.png[/img:0473501aff]

(sorry i was searching for help on snort but still maybe this could be usefull)

sparklesdan · n00b Joined: 11 May 2003 Posts: 32 Location: Cornwall, UK

gkrellm is definitely going to be what you want.

here there is a post detailing how to run gkrellm securely over an ssh connection. So not only can you monitor multiple servers on your desktop you can also do it securely :o)

(although I do things the easy way and just limit gkrellmd so only my desktops IP can connect, then connect using "gkrellm2 -s server.name". As all the boxes I'm monitoring are within the same firewalled network this isn't really a problem for me...)

Viperlins image above shows you a desktop with multiple instances of gkrellm running, but incase you want more here's mine with gkrellm monitoring my desktop (binary) and main server (behemoth).
[img:fcae53817b]http://gonzo.cybermuppet.co.uk/~dan/images/desktop_th.png[/img:fcae53817b]
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RangerDude · Guru Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Posts: 301

Viperlin,

You have a smart desktop.
What programs do you use for the notes? Where do you have var/log/messages from? I don't have that file.
And what app gives you the weather?

viperlin · Veteran Joined: 15 Apr 2003 Posts: 1319 Location: UK

top text output is from my server, it outputs my syslog and apache access_log and the snort alerts log

the bottom one is my local syslog output.
yours could be /var/log/syslog depending on what system logger you installed. i use syslog-ng

i use Eterm to tail the output "tail -f /var/log/messages"

notes prog is called "sticky notes"

and the weather on my desktop is just a gdesklets theme

RangerDude · Guru Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Posts: 301

Thanks.

I have metalog and