Quicklook

Quick Look is a package to collect system statistics and output pretty graphics and (X)HTML pages. It allows system administrators to have a quick look on the status of their systems, without going for a more advanced (and heavier) solution.

Quick Look currently shows…

• CPU and memory usage
• Load average and process spawning rates
• I/O operations
• Network traffic rates
• Tracked network connections

cd ~
curl http://quicklook.googlecode.com/files/quicklook-1.0.2.tar.gz > quicklook-1.0.2.tar.gz
wget -c http://apt.sw.be/packages/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
apt-get update
apt-get install rrdtool
apt-get install python-rrdtool
tar zxvf quicklook-1.0.2.tar.gz
cd quicklook-1.0.2
make DESTDIR=/opt/quicklook install
cp extras/stats.cron /etc/cron.d/stats
cd /var/www/html
ln -s ../quicklook

and it's done. It is also recommended that you have to secure your quicklook site, for more info visit http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/htaccess.html