[CentOS] Graphing System Load MRTG

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Dec 21 16:16:46 UTC 2010


On 12/21/2010 10:09 AM, Matt wrote:
> I check system load like so:
>
> [root at server cron.daily]# w
>   10:07:33 up 4 days, 15:01,  2 users,  load average: 4.22, 3.17, 3.09
>
> I would like to to graph the 3.17 5 minute average with MRTG.  Anyone
> know of some examples of doing this?

Where you should start depends on how much else you would like to 
monitor.  Cacti is probably the easiest thing to set up for a small 
number of machines and not unreasonable for a single host monitoring 
itself.  I like OpenNMS but it is overkill for a small setup.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com



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