Openbsd
Quoting it’s website, “Munin is a networked resource monitoring tool (…)”.
It’s like Cacti but smaller, faster, …
It is based on a client/server configuration. By default, you install the “client” part on the host you want to monitor and install the “server” part on the host that will keep the data and do the graphics.
Here’s the way I installed, configured and run it on OpenBSD 4.9.Continue reading...
On my way for constant Web site rendering improvement, I decided to give XCache a try. I’ve been using eaccelerator for a long time and found it very efficient. But I never looked at the Google WebMaster Tools metrics before :)Continue reading...
symon says it is a “system monitor for FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux. It can be used to obtain accurate and up to date information on the performance of a number of systems”. What I like is that it is lightweight and quite straight forward to implement.
Here’s how I configured it on my OpenBSD box. Note that my box is both a client and a server regarding monitoring events.Continue reading...
Quoting Monit’s website, “Monit is a free open source utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and filesystems on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.” I like it because it is much lighter than Nagios.
In the OpenBSD ports, it is available in version 4. But it is also provided as a binary archive from the website.
Here’s how to run Monit v5 on OpenBSD.Continue reading...
OpenBSD provides an optimized and secured Apache v1.3 server. It also provides various PHP modules. But it doesn’t provide the eAccelerator PHP module (yet?).
Here’s how I compiled, installed and run eAccelerator on OpenBSD’s native Apache:Continue reading...