Hello!
I am looking for a way to monitor various system informations for the debian
servers we install.
An example of informations to monitor is:
- Network throughput
- Uptime
- Mail queue size
- If I'm sending mail, what's the sending progress (1)
- If I'm retrieving mail (fetchmail), what's the progress (1)
- Is the modem connected? At what speed? What's its current throughput?
- User specific disk and mail stats (requires user autentication)
...and the like. The goal is to have various ways to read the stats (web page
on a server's http server, gnome application, win32 application).
The first step is to write ad application who's able to gather all the required
information and to share it in a consistent way.
That said, the questions are:
1) SNMP seems to be a good way to share these informations, but I have to
learn it: before starting, is it the right way to go?
2) LDAP instead? Other services?
3) Is there a way to interrogate fetchmail about how's going?
If not, is someone working on it? Who? I'll give help.
If nobody's working on it, I will.
4) Is there a way to interrogate exim and pppd about how's going?
Luckily diald already has a way to gather informations.
TIA! Enrico
(1)
Progress is something like:
"sending message 3/7, 23Kb/85Kb (27%), 104Kb/541Kb (19%) total"
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