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JackBauer
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Monitoring server resources

Post by JackBauer » 2021/09/10 15:07:55

Hello,

How are you monitoring your server resources? CPU? IO?

Do you use any tool to make graphs?

Thanks

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Re: Monitoring server resources

Post by MartinR » 2021/09/10 15:34:51

PCP will give you all the stats you want with the option of both live and recorded graphs. Furthermore, there is some integration with cockpit for the statistics collection.

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Re: Monitoring server resources

Post by jlehtone » 2021/09/10 20:56:56

collectd. From CentOS OpsTools SIG's repo.

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Re: Monitoring server resources

Post by JackBauer » 2021/09/11 07:23:12

MartinR wrote:
2021/09/10 15:34:51
PCP will give you all the stats you want with the option of both live and recorded graphs. Furthermore, there is some integration with cockpit for the statistics collection.
Is that it?

https://access.redhat.com/documentation ... erformance

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Re: Monitoring server resources

Post by JackBauer » 2021/09/11 07:24:50

jlehtone wrote:
2021/09/10 20:56:56
collectd. From CentOS OpsTools SIG's repo.
I will check this guide then

https://www.linuxsysadmins.com/install- ... -on-linux/

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Re: Monitoring server resources

Post by MartinR » 2021/09/11 09:03:29

Yes; PCP = Performance Co-Pilot.
It was originally developed by SGI/Cray to monitor their (for the time) big machines and large academic clusters (£million plus class). It was eventually released into Linux. You can also look out for pmie which is the inference engine. pmie will monitor stats and take actions depending upon what is happening, a sort of virtual operator.

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Re: Monitoring server resources

Post by TrevorH » 2021/09/11 11:44:59

There are also things like cacti, librenms, possibly zabbix and many others.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke

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