[Tutor] System Monitoring

[de Haan]

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>wrote:

> de Haan wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info
>> >wrote:
>>
>>  de Haan wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Im fairly new to programming in python, and have a question.
>>>>
>>>> Im looking to build a program that monitor's certain things on my Linux
>>>> system. for instance disk space. What is the best way to monitor a Linux
>>>> server without using to much resources?
>>>>
>>>>  Why reinvent the wheel? What's wrong with using an existing system such
>>> as
>>> Nagios or Cactii?
>>>
>>
>>
>> This is true, and yes, Nagios is good for this job. But im wondering what
>> the best way is...
>>
>
> Define "best".
>
> Cheapest? Fastest? Most reliable? Least impact? Most powerful? You can pick
> any one, maybe two if you're lucky.
>
> The best way to talk with the system hardware. (or is that to general?)

>
> But in general, the best tool is the one that already exists, not the one
> that you will spend six months writing to be a fifth as useful.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Steven
>
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