Monitor servers

[Darren Worrall]

On 12 July 2012 12:04, L.M.J <linuxmasterjedi at free.fr> wrote:
> Le 11/07/2012 22:05, Darren Worrall a écrit :
>
>> On 11 July 2012 20:23, L.M.J <linuxmasterjedi at free.fr> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>   I'm looking for a solution to monitor cpu/disk usage on several servers
>>> and
>>>   it send me an email if there is an alert level reached.
>
>
>> CollectD?
>>
>> http://collectd.org/
>> http://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Notifications_and_thresholds
>> http://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:Notify_Email
>>
>> Wont even write to rrd's if you dont want it to, just alert you when
>> something goes over a threshold. Very light, modular, flexible.
>
>
> I'm testing it. I've disabled rrd writes but I have errors in the syslogs :
> Filter subsystem: Built-in target `write': Dispatching value to all write
> plugins failed with status 2 (ENOENT). Most likely this means you didn't
> load any write plugins.
>
> By chance, do you know how to fix this issue?
>
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Huh, never realised that it _needed_ a write plugin. Bit hacky but the
network communication is all UDP, so you could setup a network writer
to localhost which should hopefully keep it quiet.