Ask HN: How to monitor a rack of mac minis

7 points by j3ali 11y ago ↗ HN

We use a lot of mac minis for iOS testing. What do you all use to monitor system resources such as CPU, Mem, Bandwidth etc. I have looked into using graphite but collectd is very painful to setup for OS X

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jameshk 11y ago ↗

You could look into what Imgix does, they have a datacenter full of Mac mini's.

andyn 11y ago ↗

I'm using Xymon ( example: https://www.xymon.com/servers/servers.html ). I found it didn't take much work to add a client to the monitor and the default set of reports was enough.

There's supposed to be an OSX client, but I haven't used it.