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 I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you.
Step 1. Prepare Server machine. For quick installation and dependency resolution, you can install DAG repository:
# rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/packages/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm