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I'm spending a lot of time manually reporting basic Linux system stats that I get from either Cacti monitoring tool and/or Top and ps command. I'm essentially writing a report in following format:

Host: <name value>

CPU Util: <value> (if Idle % is 100 - 60% print "Good" ; if Idle % is 60 - 30% print "Fair"; if Idle % is 30 - 0% print "Bad")

Memory Util: <value> (if Free Mem % is 100 - 60% print "Good" ; if Free Mem % is 60 - 30% print "Fair"; if Free Mem % is 30 - 0% print "Bad")

Up since: (check date PID was started;  calculate number of days/hours PID has been runninig; print value)

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I'm pretty sure this could be done in Shell scripting and Cron job, not sure if it would be easier as a Perl script. Either way I'm open to learning the most efficient and simplest solution for the above admin task.

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  • What's the purpose of the report that can't be achieved in Cacti?
    – Dan Carley
    Jul 1, 2009 at 20:06

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You could use atsar to get periodic statistics about the utilization of CPUs, disks and disk partitions, memory and swap, tty's, TCP/IP (v4/v6), NFS, and FTP/HTTP traffic are gathered.

This is a Linux version of the 'sar' command found in Solaris and other Unices.

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Install and configure "sysstat"

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