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]]> By: patrickg http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/2007/07/12/how-to-manually-monitor-your-linux-servers-storage/comment-page-1/#comment-3530 patrickg Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:45:38 +0000 http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/2007/07/12/how-to-manually-monitor-your-linux-servers-storage/#comment-3530 Well under Linux, you can simply have it email every night. Run "crontab -e" and add the lines MAILTO=you@yourdomain.com 00 12 * * * df -h Another way to go is to set up SNMP on your Linux machine, which will let you monitor a huge amount of data such as CPU usage, disk busy %, swapping, network traffic, etc. Tools such as MRTG or rrdtool can be used to plot this information into nice graphs. Well under Linux, you can simply have it email every night.

Run “crontab -e” and add the lines

MAILTO=you@yourdomain.com
00 12 * * * df -h

Another way to go is to set up SNMP on your Linux machine, which will let you monitor a huge amount of data such as CPU usage, disk busy %, swapping, network traffic, etc. Tools such as MRTG or rrdtool can be used to plot this information into nice graphs.

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