Re: Multiple system remote monitoring

>> I have 5 systems on which I'd like to monitor temperatures, CPU
>> activity, HD activity, and network activity.  gkrellm seems adept at
>> monitoring these things locally, but can I configure it to monitor
>> these attributes of 5 different systems from my laptop?  Since the
>> laptop is mobile, maybe I should aggregate the monitoring data on a
>> stationary system and somehow pull it from there on my laptop?  Is
>> gkrellm suited to this?
>>
>
> i monitor 15 servers remotely using gkrellm.. it is simplest with a static ip
> on the laptop, but since it is mobile you will just have to trust opening the
> remote port either to the world or to a specific ip block if you are always
> assigned one within the same block.
>
> the servers run gkrellmd and gkrellm on the monitoring workstation. each
> server monitor has its own unique configuration so it is quite nice.
>
>> I'd also like to get temperature alerts via email.  Can gkrellm and/or
>> lm_sensors do that when pointed to a mail server?
>
> i am not sure of direct email support but there is a way to do this in
> gkrellm. the alerts button for each cpu core. in the alert command put the
> name of a script to run and in that script use the mail/mailx utility to send
> an email. it won't tell you the temp but you know the temp has exceeded your
> threshold if you get a notice. if cooling is proper, i have found the temps
> not to vary much at all to the point over several years i have never had one
> get even within 10C of the max operating limit of the chip (on our opterons
> it is 67c) our temps run between 45 and 52c with full load and around 38c
> light load.

Thanks a lot Rio, I really appreciate it.

- Grant

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