This project is no longer being actively maintained.

Quick Look

Quick Look is a package to collect system statistics and output pretty graphics and (X)HTML pages. It allows system administrators to have a quick look on the status of their systems, without going for a more advanced (and heavier) solution.

Quick Look currently shows...

• CPU and memory usage
• Load average and process spawning rates
• I/O operations
• Network traffic rates
• Tracked network connections

Requirements

• Python 2.3 or newer
• Cheetah 0.9.16 or newer
• Linux 2.4.27 or newer, 2.6.8 or newer
• rrdtool 1.0.49 or newer
• python-rrd 0.2.1 or newer

Older versions of any of these packages may work, but haven't been tested.

Installation

To install Quick Look into /opt/quicklook, just run the following commands:

make DESTDIR=/opt/quicklook install
cp extras/quicklook.cron /etc/cron.d/quicklook

By default, data files are stored in /var/opt/quicklook and webpages are generated into the /var/www/quicklook directory. If you wish to make changes to the output directories, or you chose a different installation directory, edit the quicklook.cron file before copying it.

Quick Look will now collect data and generate webpages every five minutes. No other steps are needed, but you can always run stats.py without parameters to check out the options available.