On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 7:35 AM, SilverTip257 <silvertip257@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>> It might be overkill for a single box, but tools like OpenNMS will
>> collect this info from any number of targets via snmp and let you
>> graph the history up to a year back.
>>
>
> And there are other trend graphing applications like Cacti that will give
> you the same sort of historical data. Data points are also collected via
> SNMP, but if you write custom scripts Cacti can use you're not limited to
> just things exported via SNMP.
>
> [But extensibility via scripts is common to most open source software and
> exporting data points via SNMP is a best practice.]
>
Opennms is very extensible too - and includes support for collecting
metrics via wmi, xml, jmx, etc. But it is a big framework and fairly
complicated to extend (but a lot works out of the box after a simple
yum install). Something like collectd would be more lightweight.
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Les Mikesell
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