The following info can be collected from Linux if you have SSH credentials configured on the crawler.
Inventory shows the following:
Be sure to install and configure and test SNMP in order to get network and other info.
1) Health tab (ping and DNS uptime)

2) Performance tab:
– Uptime
– graphs for Load average for 1, 5, and 15 minutes.
– graphs for Memory Total, Free, Buffers, Cached, swap total, swap free

3) Network tab: Mac address, in/out bytes

4) Users (not currently)
5) Processes tab:(similar to ‘ps aux’ command)
6) Disks tab: name, total size, free
7) Hardware: Processor type, speed
8) Packages: for some distros of Linux like RedHat, CentOS
9) Logs: not currently
10) Configuration: more info soon

Phase 2 (in GoToAssist)
1) If you haven’t already, use crawler app on your crawler computer and add SSH credentials for your “crawler” user.
2) Add a schedule to the Crawler (example settings):
Frequency: 5 or 10 minutes minutes (or as desired)
Applies to: Unix computers computers
plugin: “remote commands”
set parameters of plugin to use these commands:
- disks
- dmesg
- lsb_release
- mbmon
- proc_filesystem
- processes
- w_and_loadavg

As of April 2012 there are now a few ‘standard alerts’ for Linux but you can use PQL or Log Query to create your own. Also see the community forums. Often times Linux servers are used for email, web server, database etc which can use alerts for ‘network services’.