Marching Penguins: Monitoring Your HPC Cluster Sep 4, 2008, 04 :31 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (2542 reads) (Other stories by Jesse Becker)
"Monitoring itself can be broken down into two broad parts. The first is actually determining which metrics are needed and then collecting that data from the hosts. Some of the most commonly tracked metrics are CPU usage, memory consumption, network bandwidth, and disk I/O stats. These provide different indications of how well a system is performing, and may indicate where there are potential problems or performance bottlenecks. Once the data have actually been acquired, the second task is presenting the information in a meaningful way for analysis."
