S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring hdd, Analysis, and Reporting Technology). This monitoring system support practically all hdd disks. You have to install smartmontools for working with smart on FreeBSD. I suggest you have alredy installed it. #smartctl -a /dev/ad1 This command show you many various indicatos about your disk (rate of hardware read errors, count of reallocated sectors, [...]

Posted on August 17th, 2010 by admin
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Article in a nutshell describes installation and configuration Munin on FreeBSD. With munin you can monitor your servers very easy. Munin also presents output information in graphs through a web interface. Install munin-main (Munin Collector): # whereis munin-main munin-main: /usr/ports/sysutils/munin-main # cd /usr/ports/sysutils/munin-main # make install clean Install munin-node: # whereis munin-node munin-node: /usr/ports/sysutils/munin-node # [...]

Posted on January 23rd, 2010 by admin
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