Hi All,

I am working on Linux Servers. I have to manually check server health daily by running commands like prstat -a, df -h etc and to ensure that server health is fine.

I need to know if i can display these details on any GUI. So that i can easily check the server health.

Please note that I can not install any software for that.

Thanks,
Ashish

why is it being on a gui easier? If you're not installing any additional tools then no, there's no simpler way to check than running a few tiny commands.

You can put together some kind of script which sends information about your server periodically via emails or something like that, but you'll have to be very careful about automating those simple commands you listed previously.

Do your servers have any recent versions of snmpd installed?

If so then you can use the "exec" option to allow you to run a script through an OID call and return the values to something like Nagios for monitoring.

This way you aren't installing any software, you're just extending what already exists.

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@All : Thanks for your Support.

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each & everything about the Linux server as per the performance harddisk cpu memory swap i/owait
network utilization etc

Sar install collect all report & get Graphical report "ksar"

There is a program called Webmin that might be what your after, Its a web-based tool for administering a linux server,

no, that's not for mass monitoring at all.

work well for me when I was running servers.

But I see he can't install any software any way

install sysstat & get all sar logs which give u the approx all the os level log & any performance issue occurred like disk read write/cpu utilization memory utilization


1. CPU utilization
2. Memory paging and its utilization
3. Network I/O, and transfer statistics
4. Process creation activity
5. All block devices activity
6. Interrupts/sec etc.

yum install sysstat*

cat /etc/cron.d/sysstat
Sample outputs:

# run system activity accounting tool every 10 minutes
*/10 * * * * root /usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1
# generate a daily summary of process accounting at 23:53
53 23 * * * root /usr/lib64/sa/sa2 -A


sar -n "memory"

sar -q "run queue/cpu Load"

sar -u "CPU utilization "

man sar "more on"

ksar download
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ksar/
unzip the ksar

take a report from the server in which the problem occur on "24dated"
LC_ALL=C sar -A -f /var/log/sa/sa24 > /tmp/sardata.txt



take that sardate.txt into the server where u unzip that zip file of ksar now run the ./run.sh after changing the permission chmod a+x run.sh & now give the path of the sardata.txt file & save it as pdf so that you get the proper report which can share & also justify the any error occurred happen at that period related to the health/performance

You could also look at Cacti,

http://www.cacti.net/

It does a lot of monitoring of system health.