Designing a Monitoring System

Requirements

Let’s sum up what we want our monitoring system to do for us:

• Monitoring critical local processes on a server for crashes.

• Monitoring any anomalies in the use of CPU/Memory/Disk/Network bandwidth by a process on a server.

• Monitoring overall server health (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network bandwidth, Average load, etc.).

• Monitoring hardware component faults on a server (like memory failures, failing or ...