What kind of logging exactly do you want? This seems like something that could be accomplished fairly easily wish a short bash script and cron. -Max On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:26:45 -0500 gregrwm <tclug1 at whitleymott.net> wrote: > i would like to start collecting data from centos environments, eg > netwk traffic (openvz /proc/net/dev), cpu utilisation (container or > HN), cpu temp (HN), fan speeds. i already have nagios monitoring > them, but, i'm not aware that nagios offers data collection. > > trusting you wouldn't suggest either a semi or a scooter to carry the > groceries, what do y'all recommend? rrdtool? snmp? a control panel? > other?