Tracking CPU & Mem usage over time

[Olivierk]

Hi all,

I'm looking for a way to see my Level 3 VPS with cPanel's CPU and memory usage over time. Something that would show it in a hourly, daily, monthly graph type form so I can look at historical data and peaks.

Any recommendation? Preferably something that would be easy to install and even might be able to email reports :-)

Thanks for your help.

--Olivier

[quietFinn]

Did you try MUNIN?
WHM-> cPanel-> Plugins

[Olivierk]

Thanks quietFinn!

That does indeed look like exactly what I need unfortunately, tried to install it twice and it fails :-(

In the Manage Plugin it shows:

Name: munin
Author: cPanel Inc.
Installed Version: failed
Version: 1.4.5-1.7
Description: Munin Server Monitor
Price: free

While the install is happening, I see references to running out of memory. I'm on a Lvl 3 VPS and there's really nothing else memory intensive that's running while I'm doing the install...

Any ideas before I start a ticket?

Thanks! Olivier

Install dump:

Updating munin....

Fetching http://httpupdate.cpanel.net/cpanels...panelsync.lock (0)....Using dns cache file /root/.HttpRequest/httpupdate.cpanel.net......searching for mirrors (attempt 1)......loaded mirror speeds from cache......connecting to 75.126.236.226...@75.126.236.226......connected... ...receiving......Done
Fetching http://httpupdate.cpanel.net/cpanels...x86_64.tar.bz2 (1)....@75.126.236.226......connected......receivi ng...10%...21%...31%...42%...52%...63%...73%...84% ...94%...100%......Done
munin-Linux-x86_64/.
munin-Linux-x86_64/munin-1.4.5.tar.gz
munin-Linux-x86_64/install
munin-Linux-x86_64/uninstall
munin-Linux-x86_64/version
munin-Linux-x86_64/progversion
munin-Linux-x86_64/addon_munin.cgi
munin-Linux-x86_64/osdata
munin-Linux-x86_64/osdata/defaults
munin-Linux-x86_64/osdata/cpanel.conf
munin-Linux-x86_64/osdata/linux
munin-Linux-x86_64/osdata/linux/munin.cron
munin-Linux-x86_64/osdata/freebsd
munin-Linux-x86_64/osdata/freebsd/Makefile.config.freebsd
munin-Linux-x86_64/osdata/freebsd/munin.cron
munin-Linux-x86_64/osdata/freebsd/munin-node.sh
Fetching http://httpupdate.cpanel.net/cpanels...cpanelsync.bz2 (1)....@75.126.236.226......connected......receivi ng...100%......Done
Adding munin user (if needed)...Done
Installing perl modules....Log::Log4perl..[ok]..Module::Build..[ok]..Time::HiRes..[ok]..HTML::Template..[needed]..Net::Server..[needed]..Net::Server::Fork..[needed]..Net::SNMP..[needed]..HTML::Template..[needed]..Method: Perl Expect
Testing connection speed...(using fast method)...Done
Ping:3 (ticks) Testing connection speed to cpan.develooper.com using pureperl...(12900.00 bytes/s)...Done
Ping:3 (ticks) Testing connection speed to cpan.belfry.net using pureperl...(15175.00 bytes/s)...Done
Three usable mirrors located
Mirror Check passed for cpan.belfry.net (/index.html)
Disabling /bin/wget since LWP is available at /usr/local/cpanel/Cpanel/cPCPAN/Config.pm line 82.
Disabling /bin/ftp since Net::FTP is available at /usr/local/cpanel/Cpanel/cPCPAN/Config.pm line 87.
commit: wrote '/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/CPAN/Config.pm'
Going to read '/home/.cpan/Metadata'
Going to read '/home/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz'
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.033)
.................................................. ..........................DONE
Going to read '/home/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz'
Database was generated on Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:28:22 GMT
.................................................. ..........................DONE
Going to read '/home/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz'
Out of memory during request for 4088 bytes, total sbrk() is 219588608 bytes!
HTML::Template..[needed (forced)]..Net::Server..[needed (forced)]..Net::Server::Fork..[needed (forced)]..Net::SNMP..[needed (forced)]..HTML::Template..[needed (forced)]..Method: Perl Expect
Testing connection speed...(using fast method)...Done
Ping:3 (ticks) Testing connection speed to cpan.belfry.net using pureperl...(15175.00 bytes/s)...Done
Ping:3 (ticks) Testing connection speed to cpan.develooper.com using pureperl...(16125.00 bytes/s)...Done
Three usable mirrors located
Mirror Check passed for cpan.develooper.com (/index.html)
Disabling /bin/wget since LWP is available at /usr/local/cpanel/Cpanel/cPCPAN/Config.pm line 82.
Disabling /bin/ftp since Net::FTP is available at /usr/local/cpanel/Cpanel/cPCPAN/Config.pm line 87.
commit: wrote '/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/CPAN/Config.pm'
Going to read '/home/.cpan/Metadata'
Going to read '/home/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz'
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.033)
.................................................. ..........................DONE
Going to read '/home/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz'
Database was generated on Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:28:22 GMT
.................................................. ..........................DONE
Going to read '/home/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz'
Out of memory during request for 4088 bytes, total sbrk() is 219588608 bytes!
Done

[Olivierk]

Hi.

Thanks to support, finally got Munin installed and it's exactly what I needed!

FYI: for anybody else running into this, this is what support had to do:

"increased the maximum memory for a cPanel process to take to unlimited in WHM, under Tweak Settings, system tab"

--Olivier

[usefkl05]

Is there anything similar to Munin for us users of Parallels Power Panel?

Thanks,
Andy