[wellylug] How to monitor CPU/Memory/Disk usage

[Jamie Baddeley]

On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 13:36 +1200, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> I'm a little worried that my 'mail server' PC is getting overloaded and I
> am losing emails etc., or that I am having delays in outgoing mail.
> How can I set up some sort of monitoring to look at CPU, memory and disk
> usage - preferably in a graphical format.
> I seem to recall that cricket and/or mrtg might be able to do this but
> searching around has not shown me any way to monitor a local PC's stats -
> can anyone point me in the right direction?

you run snmpd locally and point cricket at localhost.

look here:
http://froob.net/~dezwart/pooter/cricket/boxen/


> I'd like to be able to do this on Debian and Gentoo as there are a couple
> of other PCs I'd like to be able to monitor as well.
>