Enrico, look into "ud" for uptime and "eximon" for exim monitor. (yeah, uptime shows uptime just as well -- but ud logs the three longest, as well as current time up..)
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 02:40:01PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > 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" > -- > GPG public key available on finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
