Hello everyone!

It's been a while because my Debian server is working properly without the need of any interventions

I'm looking for a console program to view meters on the screen or thru a telnet / ssh session.
I need "level meters" that show CPU and Memory usage. And above that the download and upload ...

Google searches came up with nothing interesting, so I was wondering anyone could give me a name of a program

Have you tried gtkrelm ????

It runs under x and have a lots of functions like CPU occupation, memory and so on ( even network parameters ).

GOOD LUCK

Well, that's the problem. I don't have a X-server installed on the server. It's dedicated to HTTP, FTP, SAMBA and MySQL daemons. I don't have a screen connected to it. I administrate the server with telnet.

Therefor I need a program which can be run in console via a Telnet session.

Another possibility could be a daemon, which generates a html page every few seconds, which I can look up through a webbrowser ...

maybe you could create a script that looks at the infos you require an put it on a text file. I do something similar with tail -f on a /proc file it makes an auto refresh. Maybe this solution is more time expensive but less difficult to realize.

OK, if I understand this right, I create a shell script that gets the info from the system, and write it to a file...

Well, I'm learning fast, but I haven't got much experience yet with shell scripting.
Therefor I have 2 questions :
- How can I obtain following information :
* CPU usage
* physical memory usage
* Swapspace usage
* upload rate
* download rate

- How can I write this information in a file with a shellscript ?
- It would be really cool if I could insert this information into a MySQL table. This way I can monitor the usage in last few hours as well ... I presume this can be done with shell scripting as well ???

I would really appreciate it if someone could help me a bit with this issue... I'm a noob but I'm really interested in these things and I have a lot of XP with programming (the ooooold basic, visual basic, php...)

OK all the things you're looking for are under the directory

/proc ( that stand for processes )
and under
/var/log ( or something similar )

you have to locate them one by one but it isn't too difficult ( especially CPU and memory )

to create a shell script you could use a console text editing like vi ( I use this ) and I think that using a few commands like:


ls
grep
> (to redirect output in a file)
other commands . . .


you should resolve your problem. The file must be executable only by root so you have to change its permission with the command:

chmod 700 <filename>

then put it under your /sbin directory to place it between your shell command.

I think that with this system you shouldn't have problems. However I remember you two things:

1. I use SuSE so some things could be different (i.e. directories )

2. I'm not a programmer so I suggest you to look for a tutorial on how to write scripts in bash.

See you.