monitoring a workstation
 

Hi,
*
I need to monitor a
workstation (Centos 5 x86_64).
*
I need to obtain
informations about :
*
- cpu utilization
per user, per a period, how many days per user,
*
Any ideas about a
good and simple free tool ?
*
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Hi,

For that you have a lot of solution :

"top" or "vmstat 1" on the console for a global overview
But if you need load and cpu utilisation per user you have to use ac.

Exemple :

ac -d -p
ffaye 12.86
Jan 6 total 12.86
fwadmin 0.00
ffaye 8.77
Jan 7 total 8.77
ffaye 0.24
Jan 19 total 0.24
ffaye 0.79
Today total 0.79


If you want more information follow this link : http://generationip.com/documentation/system-documentation/113-howto-on-psacct-for-a-complete-monitoring-of-processus-and-users-activities-on-your-system

After that if you need to do that remotely and generate graph, take a look on cacti or nagios.

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Hi,

I need to monitor a workstation (Centos 5 x86_64).

I need to obtain informations about :

- cpu utilization per user, per a period, how many days per user,

Any ideas about a good and simple free tool ?

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MOKRANI Rachid wrote:

> Any ideas about a good and simple free tool ?

Have a look at Munin.

http://munin.projects.linpro.no/

You can install it from the RPMForge repo.

# yum install munin

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2010/2/1 MOKRANI Rachid <Rachid.MOKRANI@ifp.fr>:
> Hi,
>
> I need to monitor a workstation (Centos 5 x86_64).
>
> I need to obtain informations about :
>
> - cpu utilization per user, per a period, how many days per user,
>
> Any ideas about a good and simple free tool ?
>

Install smpd on workstation and then use any snmp supported tool like nagios ...

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On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 5:08 AM, MOKRANI Rachid <Rachid.MOKRANI@ifp.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to monitor a workstation (Centos 5 x86_64).
>
> I need to obtain informations about :
>
> - cpu utilization per user, per a period, how many days per user,
>
> Any ideas about a good and simple free tool ?
>
> Regards.

In addition to the other suggestions (although those are typically
used for system-level monitoring), you should look into the "psacct"
package. There is an introduction to it here:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-log-user-activity-using-process-accounting.html
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Am Montag, den 01.02.2010, 14:14 +0100 schrieb Eero Volotinen:
> 2010/2/1 MOKRANI Rachid <Rachid.MOKRANI@ifp.fr>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need to monitor a workstation (Centos 5 x86_64).
> >
> > I need to obtain informations about :
> >
> > - cpu utilization per user, per a period, how many days per user,
> >
> > Any ideas about a good and simple free tool ?
> >
>
> Install smpd on workstation and then use any snmp supported tool like nagios ...
>

Nagios does not do snmp at all (some plugins do), also metrics (aka
performance data) is just the weakest spot in nagios. To get cpu
utilization per user you propably need psacct.

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Greetings,


On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:38 PM, MOKRANI Rachid <Rachid.MOKRANI@ifp.fr> wrote:
> I need to monitor a workstation (Centos 5 x86_64).
>
> I need to obtain informations about :
>
> - cpu utilization per user, per a period, how many days per user,
>
> Any ideas about a good and simple free tool ?

Perhaps an overkill, but the mention of NAGios prompted me to suggest
this: Zabbix

But a fairly integrated piece of work and can scale

CentOS 5
http://andrewfarley.com/sysadmin/zabbix-rpms-updated-to-1-8-1-in-my-repository

Some users were wondering if that could be hosted in RPM forge or similar

HTH

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From: Christoph Maser <cmr@financial.com>
> Nagios does not do snmp at all (some plugins do), also metrics (aka
> performance data) is just the weakest spot in nagios. To get cpu
> utilization per user you propably need psacct.

At the same time, it is "easy" to create a plugin with any data you want (by using psacct by example).
Only thing is that the data length is limited...
By example, the plugin just has to return on stdout something like:
description|var1=value1;warn_value;critical_value; base_value;max_value var2=value2;...
Example for a memory plugin, just output:
MEMORY OK - RAM Used: 23% (728MB/3041MB), SWAP Used: 0% (0MB/2932MB)|RAM=728MB;2736;2888;0;3041 SWAP=0MB;2902;2932;0;2932
But again, the part after the '|' is limited in length (I think it used to be 229 chars max from old tests)...
So if you have a lot of users data, you won't be able to put them all in this line.
Unless you create like 1 plugin per user or some trick like that...
And to graph, you can use the PnP nagios plugin.

But all this is only worth it if you need to monitor many servers...

JD



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On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:08 AM, MOKRANI Rachid <Rachid.MOKRANI@ifp.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to monitor a workstation (Centos 5 x86_64).
>
> I need to obtain informations about :
>
> - cpu utilization per user, per a period, how many days per user,
>
> Any ideas about a good and simple free tool ?
>
> Regards.
>
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Maybe you should try:

Cacti: http://www.cacti.net/
Munin: http://munin.projects.linpro.no/
Nagios: www.nagios.org/


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Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
>
>>
>> I need to monitor a workstation (Centos 5 x86_64).
>>
>> I need to obtain informations about :
>>
>> - cpu utilization per user, per a period, how many days per user,
>>
>> Any ideas about a good and simple free tool ?
>>
>
> Maybe you should try:
>
> Cacti: http://www.cacti.net/
> Munin: http://munin.projects.linpro.no/
> Nagios: www.nagios.org/
>

Or OpenNMS: http://www.opennms.org.

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