[Tutor] System Monitoring

[Steven D'Aprano]

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.


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