monitoring 20 servers on one screen

[woger]

Hi there,
I've setup 1.1beta2 and it works fine. I have only a problem that I have to monitor about 20 freebsd servers at once. They all run http, ftp, ssh, mail etc. and offcourse cpu usage, diskusage.
I am not able to find a way to put all this info on one screen. If I put all http info for all servers in one graph the legend is 3 times bigger than the graph and filling the screen.
Does anybody has something like that running or some suggestions?

Thanks,

Woger

[elkor]

Well I took the approach to put a little map containing all the servers for a given product in one cell of a screen. The toggle state of the server icons is good enough for me to see the binary states of most of the services (web, ftp, ssh, etc.) The remainder or the screen I filled with cpu and memory charts for each machine, you have to scroll a bit but it's not really terribly inconvienent, I set the graph size to 50x375 or so which makes the actual graphic pretty small but it's still completely functional and you can easily see spikes and lulls and such plus you can of course drill down onto it.
If you wanted to fit them all on one screen without scrolling, you could take your graph with all 20 cpu states and put that there next to (or under) the map, and maybe one for memory as well. That should give you a good overview of your twenty servers on one screen.

[woger]

Well, I didn't look at the map function yet, but that is indeed a good way to check the service status without all the text off the services.
I am going to try that.

Thanks.