I have a linux dev server I watch, and lately its chugging at some points so I'd like to keep a better eye on it. I used to use Gkrellm, but its been a pain to try get Gkrellm to build on my Mac.
Besides servering X remotely (which would not be optimal), I guess i'm looking for alternatives to Gkrellm.
I would like a program that will let me watch the I/O CPU, Memory, processes, etc of a remote server running Linux. I am on a Mac.
If you're looking for something simple, and almost certainly already installed on the Linux box, you could SSH into the Linux machine and use tools like top, vmstat, and lsof to see what it's up to.
You could use Growl for this purpose. It's possible to send Growl messages from a unix machine by using netgrowl.py, which masquerades as the growlnotify program, but all written in python.
You could then have a process running on the server that monitors the other bits, and posts notifications when limits are exceeded, or whatever.
It would be a hand-coded solution, but we are on Stack Overflow, so programming-related stuff is the go :)
(Oh, and the netgrowl.py page has a few links to similar projects in other languages, if that's your thing, too).
If you still want to test Gkrellm on Mac, you can follow this procedure
# sudo port install gkrellm
If you have this error :
*Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Registry error: xorg-xproto 7.0.16_0 not registered as installed. [...] Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.*
Do this
# sudo port clean xorg-xproto
# sudo port install xorg-xproto
And continue install
# sudo port install gkrellm
Now if you have this error :
*Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_gnome_gtk-doc/work/gtk-doc-1.11" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --with-xml-catalog=/opt/local/etc/xml/catalog " returned error 1 [...] Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.*
Do this
# sudo port clean gtk-doc
# sudo port install gtk-doc
And last
# sudo port install gkrellm
To start gkrellm
# gkrellm