You can monitor your servers nicely graphs using iStat for iphone.
these are instructions for Gentoo:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | wget http://github.com/downloads/tiwilliam/istatd/istatd-0.5.7.tar.gz tar xpf istatd-0.5.7.tar.gz cd istatd-0.5.7 ./configure make make install useradd istat mkdir -p /var/{run,cache}/istat /home/istat chown istat.istat /var/{run,cache}/istat /home/istat |
Create and edit /etc/istat.conf to match your server specs.
This config is for my OpenVZ vps.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 | # # /etc/istat.conf: Configuration for iStat server # # IP Address to listen network_addr 77.88.xx.xx # choose any port, Default is 5109 network_port 55666 # this is password, 5 digits server_code 12345 server_user istat server_socket /var/run/istat/istat.sock server_pid /var/run/istat/istat.pid cache_dir /var/cache/istat monitor_net venet0 monitor_disk ( /dev/simfs ) |
Start istatd server:
1 | sudo -u istat istatd -d -c /etc/istat.conf |
you might add it to /etc/conf.d/local.start to auload on startup
Then download iStat for iphone http://bjango.com/apps/istat/ it’s only $0.99
and add your server to the list.
Here are some screenshots, first is server and second image is my macbook discovered with bonjour.



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