Server monitoring using RPi 2

[michael_dmt]

Hello, I'm currently undergoing a course that needs to develop a project and I've been looking into developing a project of RPi 2 since I have one.

I successfully wrote scripts in python to check the availability of a server (by pinging the server for a certain time in a while) and am now wondering if anyone knows how to check the CPU usage of the server. I want to get the data of CPU usage of the server which from different machine from RPi 2. It would be great if the usage can be retrieved in percentage.

Thank you.

[drgeoff]

You are supposed to be learning how to implement that yourself, not looking for someone else's work to copy.

[CCIEliu]

Maybe you need SNMP....

[michael_dmt]

You are supposed to be learning how to implement that yourself, not looking for someone else's work to copy.

I'm not looking for someone else's work to copy, but I'm looking for example which can help me understand how to do it. I'm new to RPi, still learning and am looking for solution if I can't do the stuff, that is the reason I posted a thread here, to get help.

[pcmanbob]

If you want to understand how to check if a server is up, have a look at this project it checks to see if your internet is up, how does it do it ? by checking a server is reachable via the internet.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspber ... t-Monitor/

If you want to find examples like this, try doing a google search there is plenty of information out there, its the first thing I do if I run up against a problem when writing scripts/programs.

[peterlite]

The server needs SNMP software active and authorised to feed out to your machine. Google SNMP and your server OS. Ask the server admin for permission. When you have the SNMP protocol working, you can ask the server anything, disk space usage, temperature, you can ask it out for a date.

[michael_dmt]

If you want to understand how to check if a server is up, have a look at this project it checks to see if your internet is up, how does it do it ? by checking a server is reachable via the internet.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspber ... t-Monitor/

If you want to find examples like this, try doing a google search there is plenty of information out there, its the first thing I do if I run up against a problem when writing scripts/programs.

Thanks!

[michael_dmt]

The server needs SNMP software active and authorised to feed out to your machine. Google SNMP and your server OS. Ask the server admin for permission. When you have the SNMP protocol working, you can ask the server anything, disk space usage, temperature, you can ask it out for a date.

Great! Thanks!