Server Monitoring With munin And monit On Debian Etch

In this article Falko Timme describes how you can monitor your Debian Etch server with munin and monit. Munin produces nifty little graphics about nearly every aspect of your server (load average, memory usage, CPU usage, MySQL throughput, eth0 traffic, etc.) without much configuration, whereas monit checks the availability of services like Apache, MySQL, Postfix ...