Monitor Memory and Disk Space with Redline

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Submitted by Uli Neumann on July 22, 2007 - 9:12pm.

Some of the most interesting values of a Server are how much memory and disk space is available. If there is not enough, you need to add more memory or a larger disk drive.

Sometimes it happens that you run out of memory or disk space and you need to react immediately. With the upcoming Redline 3.0SP1 I've added memory and disk space monitoring for all platforms (Linux, NetWare, Windows) and you can draw really nice graphs which show how the memory or disk space has changed during the last day/week/month/year.

Host Memory in Redline

This is very easy to setup. Browse to Configure and select Graphs in the menu. Now pick "Host" and select the values "Memory Free" and "Total Memory" for the Memory Graph. That way it is easy to see how much memory is available compared to the total memory installed.

For the first Partition, Volume SYS or Drive C, pick the "1st Available Disk Space" and "1st Partition/Volume Size".

That way you can calculate when you need new Hardware in advance as well. Check how much disk space is used every month, and now you can easily calculate how many months you can work with that server before you need a hardware upgrade.