Unix host performance logging and graphing software

[azel]

My organization uses a home-brew script to log (cron + prstat + vmstat + ps) system performance. Every quarter we use a huge python script to parse and feed the data to gnuplot to create graphs for performance evaluation meetings.

The scripts have been patched and modified numerous times over the years and have become unmaintainable. Before starting out from scratch again I was wondering if there are existing software solutions which logs data realtime and creates performance graphs over a specified timeperiod. Do you have any recommendations?

Thanks in advance!

 

[nweaver]

MRTG might work...or rrdtools could do it. Look into what ntop does with RRD, and you might be able to create an RRD tool that would do a similar thing.

 

[Nothinman]

http://www.zabbix.com/index.php

 

[azel]

Thanks for the tips; I'll look into them!