Server Monitoring software?

[Brandje]

What kind of server monitorig softwar do you guys use?

Im sucsesfully running my TF2 servers on centOS, yet i still need to find a nice tool that displays my stats,eg bandwith, cpu usage, mem usage etc. preferaby in graphs, and preferably somthing that doesnt use too much server resources.

Ps, sorry if i posted this in the wrong forum, as it is not completely srcds related

[jameshaigh]

I use HLSW to monitor the ping, map, amount of players and simply type "stats" into an RCON console for other stats.

Don't really need much more info than that.

[dejv]

hlsw: ping,map,players etc

command "top" : cpu % mem usage

[Brandje]

I didnt know the stats rcon command, top i also use, but thats only for live stats, i'd like to see some averages, and history stats.

[woody]

Brandje Wrote:I didnt know the stats rcon command, top i also use, but thats only for live stats, i'd like to see some averages, and history stats.

If you are looking for system info (CPU, Memory, Disk, etc..) you can use any NMS out there (like Nagios) and trend it with Cacti or MRTG. You will need to install SNMP to use them. This will allow you to monitor and trend usage data (about the physical server). For game stats, use what was recommended above or gametracker. (You can see my server here; http://www.gametracker.com/server_info/8.12.71.11:27015/)

HTH

[Brandje]

Cacti is exactly what I was looking for, thanx alot!

[woody]

Brandje Wrote:Cacti is exactly what I was looking for, thanx alot!

Happy To help

[lucindrea]

check out ganglia .. this should give you nice pretty charts etc.

ganglia
http://www.ganglia.info/

berkley demo of ganglia
http://monitor.millennium.berkeley.edu/

[Brandje]

Thanx, I'm gonna give ganglia a try too, since cacti didnt quite do it for me yet.

[lucindrea]

FYI - ganglia IS in the fedora yum repository .. and CentOs is basicly RedHat with a replace run on the source ( replace Redhat > CentOS ) and redhat is the retail version of Fedora .. well you get the idea , you sould be able to just do a
yum search ganglia

[Soynuts]

http://serverstats.berlios.de/

Server stats is a nice simple monitoring tool if all you want to see is overall bandwidth usage, cpu usage, # of processes running, and swap used. Very easy to install and get going too.

[redm2006]

i'm using for bandwith monitoring vnstat... it's in the fedora repos, too...

simply use yum to install it... if you want a nice GUI, check out the vnstatPHP frontend (!google!)

check out some easy examples: http://84.19.182.217/vnstat/


this is really good, if you're lookin for cool traffic stats without hackin' thousands of lines of code into your vi ;D


and yay - top is awesome. but check out "htop"... even more nice!!