System Monitoring on Ubuntu in 30 seconds
Installing munin has to be the fastest and simplest way of installing a visual system monitor on Linux.
Website Blurb:
Munin the monitoring tool surveys all your computers and remembers what it saw. It presents all the information in graphs through a web interface. Its emphasis is on plug and play capabilities. After completing a installation a high number of monitoring plugins will be playing with no more effort.
Munin is incredibly extensible, you can monitor many nodes (servers) from one client and there is no end of plugins available.
The beauty of the apt-get install is it will check what you have installed already and automatically enable the supported plugins for your installed software, for example, mysql & postfix.
If you are using a default apt'ed version of apache2, things are very simple.
apt-get install munin-node munin
Thats it. You'll see a new directory in /var/www called munin.
Leave it a few hours and jump to http://your-server/munin to see the results.
If you are using a non-apt'ed apache2 then add 5 seconds onto your install time, you will need to edit /etc/munin/munin.conf and change the following line
htmldir /var/www/munin
to match your enviroment.
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