good console bases sys monitors

[Rajinder Yadav]

On 10-08-01 09:41 PM, Jamon Camisso wrote:
> On 08/01/2010 06:19 PM, Rajinder Yadav wrote:
>    
>> i guess in reddit case they were dealing with millions of requests, the
>> system in going to buckle under that kind of demand. few choices when
>> you have low mem, a hung server, shitty code (opps did I say that) or
>> errant process, reboot or restart seems the best immediate solution to
>> maintain a certain quality of service. this  helps fight the fire while
>> you're trying to figure out what is going wrong, if there is a pattern
>> is will be easier to figure out than those quirky ones that just show up
>> randomly.
>>
>> you're right it should be fairly easy to write a script to monitor some
>> of the things and send out an alert or take some action, i am not sure
>> exactly what data can be pulled by those tools for a script to query a
>> system. i don't want to run and maintain a lot of scripts that are using
>> more cpu to query, parse and poll said services if there is a better
>> solution out there, something event driven rather than poll/parse driven.
>>      
> Monit and daemontools come to mind if there's some action that needs to
> be taken. Otherwise, Nagios for monitoring has many different types of
> plugins and conditions for sending notifications when threshold foo is
> reached.
>
> Jamon
>    
This is cool stuff, Monit looks simple enough to get hacking with, and I 
like simple stuff =)

Thanks!
Rajinder
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