grabbing stats from remote boxes?

[eger]

i was wondering if anyone knew of a way to graph unix stats like cpu, loged in users, and other stats from remote boxes or hosts other than the local box. i was thinking it would be possible to run some kind of snmp daemon on the remote boxes to grab stats. has anyone done anything like this?

[BSOD2600]

I have my remote Windows computers VPN into the server and then cacti polls them.

[bmeshier]

I prefer to use SNMP to access remote boxes. Create a quick script which will fetch the data you're looking and feed it to SNMP. The appropriate line in snmpd.conf (if using UCD) would look something like this:

pass .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.255 /var/scripts/snmp_gateway

That way you can safely retreive data from remote boxes wihout having to login. Hope this helps.

[eger]

actually, i was able just to install the latest net-snmp and then add the host as a generic snmp enabled host. and viola. many of the Unix graph templates began to work. interesting.