Web-Based performance monitor

[heterosapien]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone could suggest a good application that I can use on Ubuntu Server 8.04 to monitor the performance of it through a web browser. I only have the cli installed.

Thanks

[wirelessmonkey]

cacti may be good for you... it's in the repositories, or www.cacti.net

[heterosapien]

From what I can see, this only monitors the network traffic. I am looking for something that monitors the cpu, hard drive, etc usage.

[gishaust]

what about awstats

[heterosapien]

I installed one through apt-get called phpSysInfo but I do not know how to configure it. If anyone else knows what the path would be to open it in a browser from another computer or how to configure it, please let me know.

[erwall]

I installed one through apt-get called phpSysInfo but I do not know how to configure it. If anyone else knows what the path would be to open it in a browser from another computer or how to configure it, please let me know.
Mini howto:

sudo aptitude remove phpsysinfo
wget http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/phpsysinfo/phpsysinfo-2.5.4.tar.gz
tar zxf phpsysinfo-2.5.4.tar.gz
mv phpsysinfo /var/www/
cd /var/www/phpsysinfo
mv config.php.new config.php
chown -R www-data. /var/www/phpsysinfo

Then pull up your browser and go to http://yourserver/phpsysinfo

Also, I think you should give munin a shot, is just as easy to setup and gives you much more historical data.

sudo aptitude install munin munin-node

Then pull up your browser and go to http://yourserver/munin

Takes a while for stuff to start showing up in the graphs.

[jure1873]

munin + monit
it's in the repositories

[windependence]

http://www.nagios.org/

The defacto standard. I'm sure it's in the repositories as well.

-Tim

[Viruk]

I use cacti to monitor several Ubuntu servers and Windows servers and it works great, however I run cacti on its own machine.

I have notes on how I set it up if you are in need of any help.

I want to look into Nagios but I am under the impression that it is a bit more complicated to set up (but also more powerful) - I'm sure someone can correct me if I have that wrong.

In terms of what you can monitor with cacti, I track the following types of information on Ubuntu boxes:

Hard disk space (it shows used and available and can monitor different partitions on seperate graphs)
Memory buffers
RAM (Real Memory)
Swap space (virtual memory)
Logged in users
Number of processes
Network traffic (network card - you can monitor more than one if you have more)
local traffic (loopback)
CPU useage
Load Average
ping latency

[windependence]

You are quite right, Nagios can be much harder to set up, but is feature rich (not that Cacti isn't). Fortunately there are many great tools and tutorials out there to help you.

-Tim

[TurboRush]

munin + monit
it's in the repositories

+1 for Munin.

[heterosapien]

Thanks erwall, helped a lot. I am going to give cacti a shot now.

[heterosapien]

I use cacti to monitor several Ubuntu servers and Windows servers and it works great, however I run cacti on its own machine.

I have notes on how I set it up if you are in need of any help.

I want to look into Nagios but I am under the impression that it is a bit more complicated to set up (but also more powerful) - I'm sure someone can correct me if I have that wrong.

In terms of what you can monitor with cacti, I track the following types of information on Ubuntu boxes:

Hard disk space (it shows used and available and can monitor different partitions on seperate graphs)
Memory buffers
RAM (Real Memory)
Swap space (virtual memory)
Logged in users
Number of processes
Network traffic (network card - you can monitor more than one if you have more)
local traffic (loopback)
CPU useage
Load Average
ping latency


It would be great if you could give me some notes on how you configured cacti to work.

[Viruk]

It would be great if you could give me some notes on how you configured cacti to work.

I sent you a PM