in reply to Simple server disk space display

If you only need a disk space thingy, then just follow Improv's advice.

If you need additional monitoring, then you might be better setting up an SNMP server on the machine and querying it all the values that you need. If you follow this path, then you can use Net::SNMP module to make your own scripts. You can also use a contrib collection from MRTG software distribution. MRTG is a something specifically design for monitoring, and (surprise, surprise!) is written in Perl. I'll also add a link to MRTG section on my site, in case you decide to look. :)

Leonid Mamtchenkov

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Re^2: Simple server disk space display (more monitoring tools)
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Apr 21, 2003 at 17:05 UTC
    Without going through the whole headache that SNMP can be (though it is well worth it where its possibilities are actually exploited), you can also benefit from various other very capable opensource monitoring packages like Nagios (formerly NetSaint), mon and Big Brother.

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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