[TriLUG] Easy SNMP monitoring of Linux servers

[Ron Kelley via TriLUG]

Greetings all,

I am looking for a easy-to-use and easy-to-install tool to monitor system performance for Linux.  I just went through the cacti installer again and remembered why I dislike the tool so much.

I was looking at Zabbix but was wondering if there is something else to try.  My main requirements are RAM, CPU, HDD space monitoring and graphing of Ubuntu servers.  Keeping historical data is very important - need the ability to look back over a few months of data.  I don’t care if the tool requires SNMP or an agent.  Nor do I need a tool with 1,000 features.  Just something dead simple to get performance stats from servers.

Thanks.