Re: [Tutor] System Monitoring

2011-02-09 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Sean Carolan 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? Should I execute shell comm

Re: [Tutor] System Monitoring

2011-02-09 Thread de Haan
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Sean Carolan 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

Re: [Tutor] System Monitoring

2011-02-09 Thread Sean Carolan
> 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? > Should I execute shell commands and g

Re: [Tutor] System Monitoring

2011-02-09 Thread de Haan
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > de Haan wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Steven D'Aprano > >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

Re: [Tutor] System Monitoring

2011-02-09 Thread Steven D'Aprano
de Haan wrote: On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Steven D'Aprano 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 L

Re: [Tutor] System Monitoring

2011-02-09 Thread de Haan
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Steven D'Aprano 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 L

Re: [Tutor] System Monitoring

2011-02-09 Thread Steven D'Aprano
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

Re: [Tutor] System Monitoring

2011-02-09 Thread Nitin Pawar
We use nagios for all of our monitoring which provides central information for all machines its ok to use shell scripts to do system level monitoring (minimal level) but if you have complex monitoring on java programs and all then use jmax etc Thanks, Nitin On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 4:39 PM, de Haa

[Tutor] System Monitoring

2011-02-09 Thread de Haan
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? Should I execute shell commands and grab the o