munin-node

A tarball of all relevant files can be found here. All files are hereby released under the GNU Public License version 2, and are apparently copyrighted by Oregon State University. There are 2 major parts to this system. The first is the cf.classes file, which simply describes which hosts belong in each class. The relevant classes are as follows: service_munin_host = ( larch ) service_munin_node = ( binhost columbia coos fir fraxinus g1 g2 g3 g4 ) package_munin_node = ( service_munin_node www_phpbb_com ) The second part is the cf.

Munin showed the most promise and compatibility with many of the services we run at the OSL, such as memcached and varnish. I liked how the plugin system is set up independently on each host, and that each plugin can be managed, configured, and consolidated through symlinks. For the benefit of the uninitiated the setup on each node goes something like this: #For gentoo emerge munin #For Fedora/CentOS yum install munin-node #For Debian/Ubuntu apt-get install munin-node Each client is a “node”, and runs the daemon ‘munin-node’.