Better?

2008-01-18 09:48 am
mdlbear: (hacker glider)
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When last we met the Starport's harried local BOFH system administrator household hacker, he was trying to figure out why Nova, the household fileserver, kept locking up. It looked very like a software or memory problem.

Running top continuously from home and work revealed that the memory usage never got up to the point where it would cause problems -- heck, it hasn't used swap space in three days. On the other hand, it has been up for three days.

About the only thing I've done differently in that time was to kill off Big Brother, the system-monitoring program I've been using for several years now. My copy is decidedly obsolete, and because it was free but not open source, it never got automatically upgraded like the rest of my software. The last few months it had been crashing, and I didn't use it enough to bother tracking down the problem.

I'm now looking for a good system monitor that's well-supported in Debian. I'll probably end up with either nagios or monit -- any recommendations?

Date: 2008-01-18 07:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tarkrai.livejournal.com
We use nagios pretty extensively. Seems to be solid, and configurable.

Date: 2008-01-18 07:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] johno.livejournal.com
We've been exploring Hobbit, which took the BB code (after BB sold out) and expanded and updated it.

Not sure if it's open source or not though.

Date: 2008-01-18 11:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ravan.livejournal.com
Nagios. Installs nicely. Not too fancy or bloated.

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