Monitor your server from PHP

[a_bertrand]

A little script to get the HDD activity and memory / cpu usage. I used popen but you may use other functions as well.

 

<?PHP
echo "<PRE>\n";
echo "[b]IO STATS[/b]\n";
$handle=popen("/usr/bin/iostat -k sda 1 2","r");
fread($handle,16000);
$lines=explode("\n",fread($handle,16000));
array_shift($lines);
array_shift($lines);
array_shift($lines);
echo implode("\n",$lines);
pclose($handle);

echo "[b]Top[/b]\n";
$handle=popen("/usr/bin/top -b -n 1","r");
echo fread($handle,16000);
pclose($handle);
echo "</PRE>\n";
?>

[Lithium]

Re: Monitor your server from PHP

Only *nix systems apply here though ;)

[a_bertrand]

Re: Monitor your server from PHP

Honestly you would run your PHP scripts on a windows server? Would be a non-sense... I would run on a windows server only for ASPX applications (with IIS) but certainly not for a PHP installation. I do use PHP on windows but only for the development ;)

Why? Well simply check the memory usage of your server with just the OS loaded, and tell me which of a Linux box or a Windows box use less memory, add to that cron and ssh and you know why I use Linux as servers.

[Jeff]

Re: Monitor your server from PHP

Nice little tip, thanks for sharing

[Lithium]

Re: Monitor your server from PHP

a_bertrand: true enough, but then again there is still people that often use windows hosting instead ;)

[Tonka]

Re: Monitor your server from PHP

Very nice a_bertrand

[yuriorlov]

Re: Monitor your server from PHP

 

Honestly you would run your PHP scripts on a windows server? Would be a non-sense... I would run on a windows server only for ASPX applications (with IIS) but certainly not for a PHP installation. I do use PHP on windows but only for the development ;)

Why? Well simply check the memory usage of your server with just the OS loaded, and tell me which of a Linux box or a Windows box use less memory, add to that cron and ssh and you know why I use Linux as servers.

I'll give you a few reasons:

1.) GUI

2.) Compatibility with some nifty backend things you dont / cant get with unix / linux

3.) Memory is cheap 2gb DDR2 sticks are like $20

[a_bertrand]

Re: Monitor your server from PHP

- Remote GUI is not good due to his slowness, unless you are in the same network.

- Compatibility with some back-ends, then yes, but I rarely saw a back-end which doesn't offer yet web services.

- Server memory is never cheap, specially if you need to rent your dedicated server.

[Lithium]

Re: Monitor your server from PHP

 

Honestly you would run your PHP scripts on a windows server? Would be a non-sense... I would run on a windows server only for ASPX applications (with IIS) but certainly not for a PHP installation. I do use PHP on windows but only for the development ;)

Why? Well simply check the memory usage of your server with just the OS loaded, and tell me which of a Linux box or a Windows box use less memory, add to that cron and ssh and you know why I use Linux as servers.

I'll give you a few reasons:

1.) GUI

2.) Compatibility with some nifty backend things you dont / cant get with unix / linux

3.) Memory is cheap 2gb DDR2 sticks are like $20

GUI, let's see... windows windows windows... (for Windows) Xwindows, gnome, kde, and that tiny awesome fluxbox, among a few dozen more (for *nix).

Backend things you can't do with *nix flavours? name a couple...

Memory cheap... well as a_bertrand stated... Server memory is not cheap.