Collecting data

[Clint Byrum]

On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 12:28 -0600, C de-Avillez wrote:
> On 12/24/2010 09:29 AM, derleader __ wrote:
> >  Hi,
> >      I'm developing C plugin for Ubuntu Server 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
> 
> Isn't something similar already done by collectd [1]? Would it be
> better to improve collectd as needed instead of writing a kernel
> module (and starting from scratch)?
> 

Indeed, collectd is really the way to go for this. Also sysstat, which
has been around a long long time, also does most of this.