June 2008 Archives

We wanted a Jabber server running on our own debian / ubuntu based machines and we wanted it to “Just Work”.Installation is easy with Apt, but then you need deal with configuration and this we found a little fiddly and confusing. We found the existing documentation did not suit our requirements, so we’re outlining what we did in the hope it might help someone else.Comments or feedback are most welcome - details at the end of this post.

One of the clever things Munin can do is just guess the correct scale for your graphs. It will dynamically adjust the y axis depending on the data it’s graphing.Sadly, it doesn’t always do such a great job of being smart. And un-breaking this smartness proves not to be as easy as you might hope … but it can be done.

A good step by step guide to installing Munin on Debian based machines, like Ubuntu.The comments also contain some interesting discussion about the pros & cons of Munin vs Nagios, Zabbix etc. as well as some of the strengths and weakness of Munin itself.</end>