Gathering data from a computer network
Überdust can be used to save information from a computer network about all hosts of the network and devices like:
- Temperature from CPUs or hard disk drives.
- System Load of each device.
- Usage of the device.
- The status of a RAID array
All the data from each host are gathered periodically using crontab rules and Bash Shell Scripts.
Using Überdust also makes it easy to add different host Operating Systems, as the data can be gathered in an OS specific way and communication with the server is done of HTTP queries.
Using crontab to execute the scripts in each host of the network makes it easier for the system to operate despite potential failures of a single host.
- Überdust
- crontab
- bash
- wget
- various applications for each script to collect the data (i.e hddtemp for hdd temperature)
See Data Gathering Scripts for information about the currently available scripts, usage and specific requirements, and General System Setting for settings needed for each host.
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