Chapter 2. Monitoring SUSE Studio Onsite Servers¶
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Abstract
SUSE Studio Onsite offers utilities to monitor the state of your server such as build statistics, diary information, and others.
2.1. Viewing Build Statistics¶
SUSE Studio collects data about appliance builds in various categories and appliance test drives. This data can be visualized by using the menu. Each category lists the image, its version, its format, the architecture, and other useful information. Click the link on each line to get detailed information. The categories are:
Gives a general overview, see Figure 2.1, “ Dashboard”. By drawing a rectangle with your mouse on the graph you can zoom in on a particular area of interest. Double-click to return to the original view.
Lists appliances that are currently being built.
Indicates internal errors of your SUSE Studio Onsite server.
Lists appliances which could not be built because of errors. Usually these errors are file conflicts or problems with RPM packages.
Lists all appliances which succeeded. Narrow down the list with the pop-up menu or click . Each appliance contains a detailed graph of the build times.
Lists all appliances started through the test drive environment.
2.2. Getting Diary Information¶
The administration panel contains a link named . Use this link to further investigate events in SUSE Studio. Events are listed on the left. The link on the right allows you to access more detailed information about the event. The drop-down list allows you to filter the list based on the event type. Activate the filter with .
2.3. Monitor SUSE Studio Onsite with Nagios and Munin¶
The SUSE Studio Onsite installation contains Nagios and Munin, both system and network monitoring tools:
- Nagios
Nagios is a scalable and extensible enterprise-class network and system monitoring tool which allows administrators to monitor network and host resources such as HTTP, SMTP, POP3, disk usage and processor load. Find more information at http://www.nagios.org/.
- Munin
Munin is a network and system monitoring tool. It can easily monitor the network and performance of your computers, show bottlenecks, and peak loads and memory leaks. A summary of monitoring results can be accessed through the Munin Web interface. Find more information at http://munin-monitoring.org/.
If you have set the administrator password as described in Section 1.7.3, “Setting Administrator Passwords for Nagios and Munin”,log in with your credentials.
After you have logged in to Munin, the Web site displays details about network, processes, disks, and others in a graphical grid (see Figure 2.3).
Munin is only able to show the results in a grid whereas Nagios can be influenced by the administrator.
