On 12/24/10 7:01 AM, derleader __ wrote: > Hi, > I'm developing C plugin for Centos which will be installed as > kernel module. The problem is how to collect the data about: > > * > > CPU Check – Utilization, Model, Number of Cores > > * > > RAM Check – Total Memory, Free Memory, Memory Load > > * > > HDD Check – Number of physical HDDs, Number of logical > partitions, Total space, Free space > > * > > Running processes – Total number of processes > > * > > Logs – system logs such as error logs > > * > > System uptime > > * > > Users logged in and last login – total list of users > > * > > Total network connections > > * > > Check hardware parts model and number > > none of that stuff should be in a kernel module. a simple daemon is far more appropriate. you can get the CPU info out of /proc/cpuinfo you can get the ram info out of /proc/meminfo you can get the HDD info from /bin/df you can get the process info from /bin/ps the logs are all in regular files as /var/log/*** the user login info can be found by parsing /var/log/wtmp the network connections via /bin/netstat -an the hardware info from lspci or lshw thats a lot of redundant and voluminuous information to be fetching every 5 minutes,