[ale] Monitoring Ubuntu Servers

[David Lemcoe]

A *real* simple solution that would give you the very basic information
about a system would be PHPSysAdmin.

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 9:23 PM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:

> On 05/13/2011 03:51 PM, Omar Chanouha wrote:
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> >     I have 2 ubuntu servers that I maintain at work. I would like some
> > way to be able to monitor them in order to detect intruders.
> > Specifically things like CPU usage, RAM usage, HD usage, currently
> > logged in users, running processes and IP connections. There seems to
> > be a lot of options out there, but I am wondering what the people on
> > this list use/would recommend because I know many on this list are
> > seasoned sys admins. Command line tools are just as welcome as GUI
> > apps, as long as they get the job done.
>
> For 2 boxes, it would be hard to justify the effort for Nagios.  I'd do
> something really easy like SysUsage. http://sysusage.darold.net/  You
> could deploy this in under 5 minutes.
>
>
> Anyway, go grab a copy of the source tgz and follow along.
>
>  tar zxvf SysUsage-Sar-3.0.tar.gz
>  cd Sys*0
>  sudo apt-get install sysstat rrdtool librrds-perl
>  perl Makefile.PL
>  make
>  sudo make install
>  sudo crontab -e
>
> Drop these lines into the root crontab.
>
>
>
> */1 * * * * /usr/local/sysusage/bin/sysusage > /dev/null 2>&1
>
> */5 * * * * /usr/local/sysusage/bin/sysusagegraph > /dev/null 2>&1
>
> I performed these steps using Cluster SSH on almost all our Ubuntu
> 8.04.x servers; each installation worked.
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