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I've decided to submit to peer pressure and start my own tech blog. It seems that no self-respecting software engineer can be without one these days. And Google's Blogger seems as good a hosting site as any. So, for my first entry, as a great show of originality, I will steal the contents of an email that was posted today to the BBLISA mailing list:


From: "Paul Beltrani"
Subject: [BBLISA] Re: OSS Statistics and trend reporting for Linux/Solaris

On 6/12/06, Paul Beltrani wrote:
> Does anyone have suggestions for
> open-source solutions to track server
> utilization of Linux and possibly Solaris
> hosts? ...

Thank you everyone for your replies. To recap:

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SNMP/RRDTool/MRTG

RRDTool - Round Robin Database
A system to store and display time-series data.
http://www.rrdtool.org/
http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/

MRTG - Multi Router Traffic Grapher
Retrieves stats via SNMP and generates HTML with graphs of that data over time.
Works stand alone or with RRDTool
http://www.mrtg.org/
http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/

Cacti
Front end to RRDTool and MRTG
http://cacti.net/
(I hadn't seen this one before. Thanks Alfred.)

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Nagios:
Very powerful monitoring systems. Does much more than just gather stats.
http://www.nagios.org/

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Orca
Plots data from text files to HTML pages. Works in conjunction with
data gathering scripts, orcallator (Solaris), procallator (Linux).
http://www.orcaware.com/