Server Estate Efficiency & Transparency

System Garden analyses the efficiency of your server estate, making ownership and usage transparent

Improve the bottom line by demonstrating that you are making the best use of resources, especially energy and data centre space.

Continuous assessment of every server's utilisation against applications and organisational ownership takes efficiency to the heart of your enterprise and demonstrates the progress of improvements with each team.

Increased efficiency saves money. It can reduce capital expenditure, lower internal charges and restrain the impact of estate expansion on data centres. Show that every Watt of electricity counts.

Save money, use your servers wisely.

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News

02.06.10 | Habitat 1.2.1

Minor but vital changes to long term reliability: the restarting of the clockwork daemon from a job has been fixed and is configured to run every 24 hours in the default table.

Job tables now run from file system by default, rather than the default ringstore. There are now multiple tables shipped in the standard distribution for different modes of operation.

There is a new script to check on the clockwork daemon status, a new job method to shutdown completely and more error messages. Download Habitat.

09.03.10 | Habitat 1.2

Version 1.2 modifies the process monitoring probe with a built in filter and turns it on by default. The filter is set to ignore processes that report only a small amount of CPU, thereby saving space on processes which aren't doing much. The filter is simple and easy to customise with a simple set of directives, including floating point values.

Outbound replication to Harvest refactored and improved.
64 bit builds supported.

First version to run on Mac OS X under X11 but without working probes and a disabled clockwork collection agent. Instead you can browse ringstores, remote hosts running Habitat/clockwork and Harvest repositories. However, this is for the brave only at this stage and requires macports.

When upgrading a default installation, remove the job table from the local data store (use 'irs var/.rs clockwork' from the command line, then when in the tool type 'rm clockwork' and confirm to remove the table) or start a new data store by renaming the file (eg 'mv var/.rs var/.rs.old'). When the clockwork daemon runs again, the new job table will be loaded into the ringstore from the distribution.

Habitat can be downloaded from here.

27.05.09 | Habitat 1.1.1

A bugfix release of Habitat to allow Linux sessions to run for longer, give better fonts for Gtk 1.x compatibility and collect some VM metrics.

Fedora, Centos, Ubuntu and Mandriva packages of version 1.1.1 ready to download.

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