Daniel Quinlan quinlan@transmeta.com writes:

Does anyone track or log the load (CPU, NFS ops, network in/out, etc.) on their Network Appliance boxes (over time)? If so, I'd like to hear about your experiences.

We use mrtg to plot things like nfsops/sec, network i/o, disk space status, etc. All these data are collected using snmp, qhich is what mrtg usually does, anyway. This gives us, without too much hassle, a graph of tha last 24 hrs, last week, month and year - these graphs can be very useful to track down various problems (and to monitor available diskspace).

Mrtg is free software, i can't remember off the top of my head where to find it, but it should be quite easy to find. If there's any interest I'm sure I can dig up some example configs from our setup.