LeRoy D. Cressy on Fri, 22 Oct 1999 09:02:58 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] graphical load monitor


Have you tried procmeter?

Darxus wrote:
> 
> My boss, who's been at a couple of the PLUG meetings, is interested in
> trying a Linux Samba server.  But he wants me to document how to secure &
> monitor it first (as if this is done for any NT box here).
> 
> As far as security, I expect the following to be far more than sufficient
> (and be way more secure than any NT box on our network):
> 
> 1) use ipchains to restrict all but samba & ssh connections
> 2) install tripwire
> 3) remove all server programs not in use
> 
> I am familar with all 3 processes.
> 
> For monitoring, he basically wants a Linux equivalent of NT's perfmon
> (Performance Monitor). I think he basically wants to see cpu, memory, and
> network load over time, in a GUI (he used the word GUI when stating his
> requirments).
> 
> Now, I've written a perl script that uses stuff in /proc to display load
> over given intervals (in plaintext, similar to vmstat), and I could
> probably add cpu load & memory usage somehow, and then plot it with GNU
> Plot or something, but I'm wondering if there's anything that already
> exists that would do these things for me and not make me build it myself.
> 
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