Hi all,
I have a test lab installed over an ESXi 5.1 host that contains 5 CentOS vm guests. I would like to monitor CPU, RAM and Network for these vm and ESXi host. Zabbix and Nagios are too to accomplish this task. Does anyone know any lightweight openosurce soft to do this??
Thanks.
On 3/15/2013 12:39 AM, C. L. Martinez wrote:
Zabbix and Nagios are too to accomplish this task. Does anyone know any lightweight openosurce soft to do this??
Z and N are too ____what___ to accomplish this?
I've heard Munin is easier to setup.
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 7:46 AM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
On 3/15/2013 12:39 AM, C. L. Martinez wrote:
Zabbix and Nagios are too to accomplish this task. Does anyone know any lightweight openosurce soft to do this??
Z and N are too ____what___ to accomplish this?
I've heard Munin is easier to setup.
Oops sorry ... I wanted to say "too big" ... Munin would be a good option ...
On 3/15/2013 12:56 AM, C. L. Martinez wrote:
Oops sorry ... I wanted to say "too big" ... Munin would be a good option ...
well,without any personal experience, what I heard about Munin was that it was quite easy to setup, and did a lot for you, but it was not 'light weight' by any stretch.
On 2013-03-15 11:11, John R Pierce wrote:
On 3/15/2013 12:56 AM, C. L. Martinez wrote:
Oops sorry ... I wanted to say "too big" ... Munin would be a good option ...
well,without any personal experience, what I heard about Munin was that it was quite easy to setup, and did a lot for you, but it was not 'light weight' by any stretch.
I use Munin.
If you intend to monitor many hosts, that will lead to tons of charts to draw periodically. This is very I/O consuming, and you have to make sure you have enough for that, or spend some time to reconfigure the nodes to reduce monitored resources.
Munin is easy to setup because it has configuration suggestions: it might monitor ressources that are useless for you.
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby mihamina@rktmb.org wrote:
On 2013-03-15 11:11, John R Pierce wrote:
On 3/15/2013 12:56 AM, C. L. Martinez wrote:
Oops sorry ... I wanted to say "too big" ... Munin would be a good option ...
well,without any personal experience, what I heard about Munin was that it was quite easy to setup, and did a lot for you, but it was not 'light weight' by any stretch.
I use Munin.
If you intend to monitor many hosts, that will lead to tons of charts to draw periodically. This is very I/O consuming, and you have to make sure you have enough for that, or spend some time to reconfigure the nodes to reduce monitored resources.
Munin is easy to setup because it has configuration suggestions: it might monitor ressources that are useless for you.
Thanks Mihamina. I only want o monitor these 5 vms and nothing more ...
On 03/15/2013 09:17 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
If you intend to monitor many hosts, that will lead to tons of charts to draw periodically. This is very I/O consuming, and you have to make sure you have enough for that, or spend some time to reconfigure the nodes to reduce monitored resources.
You can also use munin charts in "on-demand" cgi mode where the charts are being drawn only when called for from the pregenerated HTML (which can also be on-demand). This also enables chart zooming. You need to configure your webserver to run few perl scripts via cgi.
http://munin-monitoring.org/wiki/CgiHowto
Otherwise munin-node is just a set of perl scripts and other than the dependency list, really is lightweight.
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 2:56 AM, C. L. Martinez carlopmart@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 7:46 AM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
On 3/15/2013 12:39 AM, C. L. Martinez wrote:
Zabbix and Nagios are too to accomplish this task. Does anyone know any lightweight openosurce soft to do this??
Z and N are too ____what___ to accomplish this?
I've heard Munin is easier to setup.
Oops sorry ... I wanted to say "too big" ... Munin would be a good option ...
Personally, I like OpenNMS but it is probably even bigger. But RAM is cheap these days and it is nice to start with something that will scale up if you need it later.
Am 15.03.2013 08:39, schrieb C. L. Martinez:
Hi all,
I have a test lab installed over an ESXi 5.1 host that contains 5 CentOS vm guests. I would like to monitor CPU, RAM and Network for these vm and ESXi host. Zabbix and Nagios are too to accomplish this task. Does anyone know any lightweight openosurce soft to do this??
Thanks.
EPEL provides collectd.
Alexander
Am 15.03.2013 um 09:20 schrieb Alexander Dalloz ad+lists@uni-x.org:
Am 15.03.2013 08:39, schrieb C. L. Martinez:
Hi all,
I have a test lab installed over an ESXi 5.1 host that contains 5 CentOS vm guests. I would like to monitor CPU, RAM and Network for these vm and ESXi host. Zabbix and Nagios are too to accomplish this task. Does anyone know any lightweight openosurce soft to do this??
Thanks.
EPEL provides collectd.
+1
-- LF
On 15.Mär.2013, at 08:39, C. L. Martinez wrote:
I have a test lab installed over an ESXi 5.1 host that contains 5 CentOS vm guests. I would like to monitor CPU, RAM and Network for these vm and ESXi host. Zabbix and Nagios are too to accomplish this task. Does anyone know any lightweight openosurce soft to do this??
you could use kSar to look at the stats collected by sar http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/identifying-linux-bottlenecks-sar-graphs-with-...
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013, C. L. Martinez wrote:
Hi all,
I have a test lab installed over an ESXi 5.1 host that contains 5 CentOS vm guests. I would like to monitor CPU, RAM and Network for these vm and ESXi host. Zabbix and Nagios are too to accomplish this task. Does anyone know any lightweight openosurce soft to do this??
You might want to look at xymon it is available @ http://xymon.sourceforge.net/
Rpms for it are available @ http://terabithia.org/rpms/xymon/
HTH
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:56 AM, me@tdiehl.org wrote:
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013, C. L. Martinez wrote:
Hi all,
I have a test lab installed over an ESXi 5.1 host that contains 5 CentOS vm guests. I would like to monitor CPU, RAM and Network for these vm and ESXi host. Zabbix and Nagios are too to accomplish this task. Does anyone know any lightweight openosurce soft to do this??
You might want to look at xymon it is available @ http://xymon.sourceforge.net/
Rpms for it are available @ http://terabithia.org/rpms/xymon/
HTH
--
Ok, I will try some of these tools ... Many thanks to all for your suggestions ..
Hello, This might end up being off-topic if the answer is in some kind of php or other client-server script. So, here is what I wanted to ask... I can use Samba to share things on my local network with Windows even. I can get a view of my desktop from Windows using tightvncviewer with vino running on the Centos box. Here is what I was curious about doing... One is to have a filesync and backup like Dropbox for sharing and accessing files from anywhere. There would need to be a client app that ran on a Windows device, or even a tablet/smartphone that automatically synced a certain folder or folders that you identify. On Dropbox you select one top folder/directory. Or perhaps there could be like a virtual drive (on windows we deal in drives instead of the unix file system). This might already be doable to create a map to a network drive. I don't know if that would work over the internet if one had the laptop outside the local network and you wanted to see certain files. Not sure if the network drive would show up in this scenario. I'm looking for options for non-techie people like my wife and many of my clients - the latter often need to get me images and other assets. The other issue is streaming media to devices like my tablet, or other devices, pcs, from the Linux Centos box. Not sure if a Node.js solution is best or a php solution and/or if there are linux apps for Centos that do this. Thanks, Bruce
_______________________________________________________ Bruce Whealton - Web Design/Development/Programming Future Wave Web Development: http://futurewaveonline.com Developing for the Desktop as well as for Mobile Devices - Smartphones/Tablets Call 919-636-5809 _______________________________________________________
Here is what I was curious about doing... One is to have a
filesync and backup like Dropbox for sharing and accessing files from anywhere. There would need to be a client app that ran on a Windows device, or even a tablet/smartphone that automatically synced a certain folder or folders that you identify. On Dropbox you select one top folder/directory. Or perhaps there could be like a virtual drive (on windows we deal in drives instead of the unix file system). This might already be doable to create a map to a network drive. I don't know if that would work over the internet if one had the laptop outside the local network and you wanted to see certain files. Not sure if the network drive would show up in this scenario. I'm looking for options for non-techie people like my wife and many of my clients - the latter often need to get me images and other assets.
The other issue is streaming media to devices like my tablet, or
other devices, pcs, from the Linux Centos box. Not sure if a Node.js solution is best or a php solution and/or if there are linux apps for Centos that do this.
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/7313/1
-- Eero
Eero
This is a great tool. Thanks. What is a bit frustrating is that some of the modules do not seem to work for some reason. For example, it finds the music files and there is an enabled music player but I never get the files to play. On my Ipad, it wants to download everything, also. Instead of streaming it (both on the Windows Desktop and the iPad) it will not stream. Actually, I get something that looks like a player in the web interface, but clicking on Play does nothing.
The other issue is streaming media to devices like my
tablet, or other devices, pcs, from the Linux Centos box. Not sure if a Node.js solution is best or a php solution and/or if there are linux apps for Centos that do this.
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/7313/1
Any opinion on whether these things can be integrated with ownCloud? If anyone else has an opinion let me know. I'm guessing that many folks on this list are very familiar with php. It was amazing that owncloud did everything with just php. I had some other issues but perhaps I need to take that to an owncloud forum. Like why I ran into problems installing an app. I tried one that was supported. I downloaded it and uploaded it to my Centos box, inside the apps folder on owncloud. First I get an error when I tried to do anything as admin. It says that the folder doesn't have write access - the apps folder. Inside the httpd.conf file, I setup the user/group to be apache:apache. So, I first made sure the folders had that user/group setting for ownership (using chown). Then I ran the command: chmod +w -R apps from inside /path/to/domain/public_html/owncloud/ So, even after doing this, first: chown -R apache:apache apps and chmod +w -R apps, it was still showing that error message and telling me I had to change ownership and make things writable. I think I had to logout of the site from Chrome browser and log back in to get this to work again. My copy of firefox is not working too well with this which may be a larger firefox issue. Thanks, Bruce
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Hello, I do have virtual hosts setup. I registered one domain and used a second service that allowed me to use a subdomain on their domains and have it point to my IP for my server (the external IP). This might let me give permissions to someone to help me if I get stuck. This might be off-topic on a Centos list, although some issues do seem to relate to setting permissions, ownership, virtual hosts and etc. For example, I have the registered domain setup as the first virtual host and this is done inside the httpd.conf file. So, it's basically inside ./html/public_html/ Then my second domain is setup in a vhosts.d config file. But I didn't associate a user with that. Therefore both domains seem to require that the owner is apache:apache, which is set in the httpd.conf file. How do I setup domain2.com as a second (or third) virtual host *and* setup a username/pw for accessing that domain and others.
Thanks, Bruce _______________________________________________________ Bruce Whealton - Web Design/Development/Programming Future Wave Web Development: http://futurewaveonline.com Developing for the Desktop as well as for Mobile Devices - Smartphones/Tablets Call 919-636-5809 _______________________________________________________
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Bruce Whealton bruce@futurewaveonline.com wrote:
Hello, I do have virtual hosts setup. I registered one domain and used a second service that allowed me to use a subdomain on their domains and have it point to my IP for my server (the external IP). This might let me give permissions to someone to help me if I get stuck. This might be off-topic on a Centos list, although some issues do seem to relate to setting permissions, ownership, virtual hosts and etc. For example, I have the registered domain setup as the first virtual host and this is done inside the httpd.conf file. So, it's basically inside ./html/public_html/ Then my second domain is setup in a vhosts.d config file. But I didn't associate a user with that. Therefore both domains seem to require that the owner is apache:apache, which is set in the httpd.conf file. How do I setup domain2.com as a second (or third) virtual host *and* setup a username/pw for accessing that domain and others.
Apache is infinitely configurable. And web login users normally don't have anything to do with the permissions on the underlying files and directories. See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/auth.html. You'll have to decide how you want to store the passwords and set up the restrictions on the top-level directory for each site. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/auth.html
Hello,
I just get a server with CentOS 6.4, I have install Webmin and Vitualmin running OK, but I can't run correctly DNS server.
I set hostname: dns.maca.li Resolution order: Host file, DNS DNS servers: 127.0.0.1 and 91.121.137.55 Search Domain: maca.li
When I creta virtual server with virtualmin, all DNS records are generated automaticaly by virtualmin. But I hace errors withs all virtual server, and in http://www.intodns.com/maca.li this errorS:
" Missing nameservers reported by parent FAIL: The following nameservers are listed at your nameservers as nameservers for your domain, but are not listed at the parent nameservers (see RFC2181 5.4.1). You need to make sure that these nameservers are working.If they are not working ok, you may have problems! maca.li Error Missing nameservers reported by your nameservers ERROR: One or more of the nameservers listed at the parent servers are not listed as NS records at your nameservers. The problem NS records are: ns.kimsufi.com This is listed as an ERROR because there are some cases where nasty problems can occur (if the TTLs vary from the NS records at the root servers and the NS records point to your own domain, for example). "
// // named.conf (generated by webmin) // // Provided by Red Hat bind package to configure the ISC BIND named(8) DNS // server as a caching only nameserver (as a localhost DNS resolver only). // // See /usr/share/doc/bind*/sample/ for example named configuration files. //
options { listen-on port 53 { any; }; listen-on-v6 port 53 { any; }; directory "/var/named"; dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db"; statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt"; memstatistics-file "/var/named/data/named_mem_stats.txt"; recursion yes;
dnssec-enable yes; dnssec-validation yes; dnssec-lookaside auto;
/* Path to ISC DLV key */ bindkeys-file "/etc/named.iscdlv.key";
managed-keys-directory "/var/named/dynamic"; };
logging { channel default_debug { file "data/named.run"; severity dynamic; }; };
zone "." IN { type hint; file "named.ca"; };
include "/etc/named.rfc1912.zones"; include "/etc/named.root.key";
zone "maca.li" { type master; file "/var/named/maca.li.hosts"; allow-transfer { 127.0.0.1; localnets; }; };
// // maca.li (generated by virtualmin) // $ttl 38400 @ IN SOA maca.li. root.maca.li. ( 1363593549 10800 3600 604800 38400 ) @ IN NS maca.li. maca.li. IN A 91.121.137.55 www.maca.li. IN A 91.121.137.55 ftp.maca.li. IN A 91.121.137.55 m.maca.li. IN A 91.121.137.55 localhost.maca.li. IN A 127.0.0.1 webmail.maca.li. IN A 91.121.137.55 admin.maca.li. IN A 91.121.137.55 mail.maca.li. IN A 91.121.137.55 maca.li. IN MX 5 mail.maca.li. maca.li. IN TXT "v=spf1 a mx a:maca.li ip4:91.121.137.55 ?all"
Where is my error?
Thanks you
Ernesto
It's just saying the records don't match from your parent nameserver.
[root@janus ~]# dig ns maca.li +trace
; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-20.P1.el5 <<>> ns maca.li +trace ;; global options: printcmd . 3600 IN NS i.root-servers.net. . 3600 IN NS h.root-servers.net. . 3600 IN NS g.root-servers.net. . 3600 IN NS f.root-servers.net. . 3600 IN NS e.root-servers.net. . 3600 IN NS d.root-servers.net. . 3600 IN NS c.root-servers.net. . 3600 IN NS b.root-servers.net. . 3600 IN NS a.root-servers.net. . 3600 IN NS m.root-servers.net. . 3600 IN NS l.root-servers.net. . 3600 IN NS k.root-servers.net. . 3600 IN NS j.root-servers.net. ;; Received 477 bytes from 172.28.64.17#53(172.28.64.17) in 0 ms
li. 172800 IN NS c.nic.li. li. 172800 IN NS e.nic.li. li. 172800 IN NS d.nic.li. li. 172800 IN NS a.nic.li. li. 172800 IN NS h.nic.li. li. 172800 IN NS b.nic.li. li. 172800 IN NS f.nic.li. ;; Received 421 bytes from 192.36.148.17#53(i.root-servers.net) in 7 ms
maca.li. 3600 IN NS ns.kimsufi.com. maca.li. 3600 IN NS ns.maca.li. ;; Received 86 bytes from 147.28.0.39#53(c.nic.li) in 204 ms
maca.li. 38400 IN NS maca.li. ;; Received 39 bytes from 213.186.33.199#53(ns.kimsufi.com) in 255 ms
As you can see, the parent server returns two NS records. But here is the NS records from your server.
[root@janus ~]# dig ns maca.li
; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-20.P1.el5 <<>> ns maca.li ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 15214 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; QUESTION SECTION: ;maca.li. IN NS
;; ANSWER SECTION: maca.li. 29242 IN NS maca.li.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: maca.li. 29242 IN A 91.121.137.55
;; Query time: 0 msec ;; SERVER: 172.28.64.17#53(172.28.64.17) ;; WHEN: Mon Mar 18 18:34:32 2013 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 55
You don't specify these two NS records from your parent. Just need to add these two, you will be fine then.
Cheers,
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On 3/18/2013 4:04 PM, Weplica wrote:
Hello,
I just get a server with CentOS 6.4, I have install Webmin and Vitualmin running OK, but I can't run correctly DNS server.
I set hostname: dns.maca.li Resolution order: Host file, DNS DNS servers: 127.0.0.1 and 91.121.137.55 Search Domain: maca.li
When I creta virtual server with virtualmin, all DNS records are generated automaticaly by virtualmin. But I hace errors withs all virtual server, and in http://www.intodns.com/maca.li this errorS:
" Missing nameservers reported by parent FAIL: The following nameservers are listed at your nameservers as nameservers for your domain, but are not listed at the parent nameservers (see RFC2181 5.4.1). You need to make sure that these nameservers are working.If they are not working ok, you may have problems! maca.li Error Missing nameservers reported by your nameservers ERROR: One or more of the nameservers listed at the parent servers are not listed as NS records at your nameservers. The problem NS records are: ns.kimsufi.com This is listed as an ERROR because there are some cases where nasty problems can occur (if the TTLs vary from the NS records at the root servers and the NS records point to your own domain, for example). "
// // named.conf (generated by webmin) // // Provided by Red Hat bind package to configure the ISC BIND named(8) DNS // server as a caching only nameserver (as a localhost DNS resolver only). // // See /usr/share/doc/bind*/sample/ for example named configuration files. //
options { listen-on port 53 { any; }; listen-on-v6 port 53 { any; }; directory "/var/named"; dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db"; statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt"; memstatistics-file "/var/named/data/named_mem_stats.txt"; recursion yes;
dnssec-enable yes; dnssec-validation yes; dnssec-lookaside auto;
/* Path to ISC DLV key */ bindkeys-file "/etc/named.iscdlv.key";
managed-keys-directory "/var/named/dynamic"; };
logging { channel default_debug { file "data/named.run"; severity dynamic; }; };
zone "." IN { type hint; file "named.ca"; };
include "/etc/named.rfc1912.zones"; include "/etc/named.root.key";
zone "maca.li" { type master; file "/var/named/maca.li.hosts"; allow-transfer { 127.0.0.1; localnets; }; };
// // maca.li (generated by virtualmin) // $ttl 38400 @ IN SOA maca.li. root.maca.li. ( 1363593549 10800 3600 604800 38400 ) @ IN NS maca.li. maca.li. IN A 91.121.137.55 www.maca.li. IN A 91.121.137.55 ftp.maca.li. IN A 91.121.137.55 m.maca.li. IN A 91.121.137.55 localhost.maca.li. IN A 127.0.0.1 webmail.maca.li. IN A 91.121.137.55 admin.maca.li. IN A 91.121.137.55 mail.maca.li. IN A 91.121.137.55 maca.li. IN MX 5 mail.maca.li. maca.li. IN TXT "v=spf1 a mx a:maca.li ip4:91.121.137.55 ?all"
Where is my error?
Thanks you
Ernesto
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos .
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 3:39 AM, C. L. Martinez carlopmart@gmail.comwrote:
Hi all,
I have a test lab installed over an ESXi 5.1 host that contains 5 CentOS vm guests. I would like to monitor CPU, RAM and Network for these vm and ESXi host. Zabbix and Nagios are too to accomplish this
A relevant question here is whether you want monitoring in terms of alerts or trend graphing? This will help you narrow your software choices to what you need.
Some monitoring software such as Zenoss does both (alerting and trend graphing) as do others. My current monitoring is a combination of Nagios (alerts) and Cacti (trend graphing).
task. Does anyone know any lightweight openosurce soft to do this??
I'd be interested in other monitoring software you find and your impression of whatever you choose to go with.
Thanks. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I'm liking Xymon, quite a bit.
On 03/15/2013 12:39 AM, C. L. Martinez wrote:
I have a test lab installed over an ESXi 5.1 host that contains 5 CentOS vm guests. I would like to monitor CPU, RAM and Network for these vm and ESXi host. Zabbix and Nagios are too to accomplish this task. Does anyone know any lightweight openosurce soft to do this??
In my experience (and, I think, logically), lightweight packages are likely to require more labor to get the results that you want except for the rare occasion when the author's goals and yours coincide.
Nagios is actually quite light weight. I don't like it much, but I use it extensively. Getting things like simple graphs out of it is rather difficult exactly because it is a light weight package.
On 03/15/2013 07:39 AM, C. L. Martinez wrote:
Hi all,
I have a test lab installed over an ESXi 5.1 host that contains 5 CentOS vm guests. I would like to monitor CPU, RAM and Network for these vm and ESXi host. Zabbix and Nagios are too to accomplish this task. Does anyone know any lightweight openosurce soft to do this??
you already have some great answers, but I want to throw in another susggestio : ganglia. Its provided in rpm form at EPEL ( including ganglia-web ), and if you have a trusted network, and multicast is considered ok - you wont need to do any config beyond install, and make 2 config changes in the main /etc/ganglia/gmond.conf file on each of the nodes