harner

Hi, Frank.

Thank you for responding. Actually, I found a plugin called LightOn that uses Apache’s server-status page to grab data, and also polls quite a bit of other info about your system. There is also an option to deploy the plugin as a widget.

Like I said in my previous post, I need this for my own nerd satisfaction. My blog will be mostly tech and work related, so if I can add something as simple as some realtime service stats, I’d be happy.

As for too much information, not necessarily. Here is a copy/paste of the info shown:

Hostname: N/A
Uptime: N/A
Started: N/A
Since Start Avg. Start Server Info
Request: Requests: Restarts:
N/A N/A
Traffic: Traffic: Worker:
N/A N/A run / idl
CPU Load
1 min: 0.00 5 min: 0.01 15 min: 0.05
CPU Usage
Sys: 0.09% Usr: 0.59% Idl: 99.31%

The N/A’s are showing because I have the server-status page in Apache turned off to all traffic right now. This information is not exactly what I am looking for, but it is a start. I am going to take a look at how they are getting this to work and probably develop my own widget, specific for OpenSUSE and Ubuntu Server, since those two distro’s are my favorite flavors.

Thanks for the advice, though.

– Chris