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#1 2011-07-26 19:57:20

killercow
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[Solved] System Monitoring for SSH

Hi all,

Am on the lookout for a system monitoring tool that doesn't require X/KDE/GNOME etc. - ideally something like htop but with the functionality of something like conky ie. can also show temperatures (from lm-sensors etc.) etc.

I'm running a basic no-frills Storage box that hosts subsonic and via SSH I would like to have a tool i can quickly call upon and give me live feedback on my CPU usage etc. as well as temps. - A colourful interface would be nice too smile

Any recommendations?

Thanks in advance!

Last edited by killercow (2011-07-29 18:25:53)

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#2 2011-07-26 20:01:56

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Re: [Solved] System Monitoring for SSH

See the monitorix pkg from the AUR is nice and does what you want.


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#3 2011-07-27 19:36:25

ChoK
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Re: [Solved] System Monitoring for SSH

conky also has a console mode iirc


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#4 2011-07-29 18:24:48

killercow
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Re: [Solved] System Monitoring for SSH

Thanks for your recommendations:

graysky: wanted to avoid running a webserver so gave monitorix a miss - though looks like a brilliant monitoring tool. smile

ChoK - thanks for putting me back on this path. I had an initial look and kind of gave up on conky being able to do this (especially since it explicitly advertises itself as a program that requires X) - however!!...

Found these options for conky.conf:

out_to_console
    Print text to stdout.

out_to_ncurses
    Print text in the console, but use ncurses so that conky can print the text of a new update over the old text. (In the future this will provide more useful things)

out_to_stderr
    Print text to stderr.

out_to_x
    When set to no, there will be no output in X (useful when you also use things like out_to_console). If you set it to no, make sure that it's placed before all other X-related setting (take the first line of your configfile to be sure). Default value is yes

Added
out_to_ncurses yes
out_to_x no

Commented out (to get rid of little warning message that appears otherwise):
#out_to_console no

..and voila! Conky a la console! Thanks a million! Time to play with my conky.conf file further smile

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#5 2011-07-30 11:24:30

rwd
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Re: [Solved] System Monitoring for SSH

Also check out 'screen'. You can use it to let a commandline application run in  a 'screen' session on the remote system and show it locally via ssh. Unlike a regular terminal session it keeps on running so you can reconnect to it.

Last edited by rwd (2011-08-01 20:55:22)

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