Quick Howto: Install and configure munin for Server Monitoring
Munin is an efficient and lightweight Monitoring tool. Its available in ‘server’ and ‘node’ packages. You can install server in a single machine and node in all other machines and then view all information/statistical data in server machine.
This quick copy and paste howto explains steps needed to setup server and multiple nodes. These steps are tested in CentOS 5 Server but Please check respective documentation to make sure this will work for you as well.
Step 1. Prepare Server machine. For quick installation and dependency resolution, you can install DAG repository:
$ rpm -Uhv http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm