topic Resource utilization/performance data in Operating System - HP-UX

Resource utilization/performance data

Rosli Ahmad — Wed, 21 Jan 2004 03:33:16 GMT

Hi,
I have /usr/lbin/sa/sa1 running on cron for my sar stats but wondering what other tools/commands avail for me to gather other system resources utilization, namely disk I/O & memory utilization. Appreciate your input/reply. Thanks.

regards
-rosli-

Re: Resource utilization/performance data

Bernhard Mueller — Wed, 21 Jan 2004 03:46:21 GMT

Rosli,

the best tool for HP-UX is Glance/Perfview/Measureware, however it is licensed.

If you are interested, there is a 60day trial version on the Applicaton CDs which you can install anytime.

for disk IO there is also the iostat command
for memory there is the vmstat command

Regards,
Bernhard

Re: Resource utilization/performance data

Franky Leeuwerck_1 — Wed, 21 Jan 2004 03:47:23 GMT

Hi Rosli,

You can use
- top : for a quick look
- glance (if installed) : more possibilities

Regards,
Franky

Re: Resource utilization/performance data

Vijaya Kumar_3 — Wed, 21 Jan 2004 04:07:01 GMT

I hope your OS is HP-UX. I recommend using Glanceplus for any performance and other utilization reports. The biggest advantage is it can be used to get ultimately every performance metrics using Advisory.

Also, there are other native unix utilities to collect performance data

vmstat - CPU and Memory
iostat and sar - IO
netstat - Network
nfsstat - NFS

Hope this helps
Vijay

Re: Resource utilization/performance data

Paddy_1 — Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:26:54 GMT

As people have rightly said earlier the best suite of performance tools on HP-UX are MWA/PerfView/GlancePlus.All these tools

The performance tools Glance and MeasureWare use the midaemon process to access the internal hp-ux KI interface and hence more reliable.

Have a look at a this free tool called sarcheck at http://www.sarcheck.com/schp.htm

-Paddy

Re: Resource utilization/performance data

lanke_1 — Thu, 22 Jan 2004 10:47:35 GMT

Hi Rosli,

Performance monitoring depends on the type of the application that you run.
For performance monitoring on HPUX systems,
the best tool is GlancePlus.
There are more functions which can be used to effectively monitor the performace
and one can fine tune the system based on the glance plus report. It gives the % Utilization as well as individual reports of each of the following:

CPU Disk Mem Swap

Thanks,
Lanke

Re: Resource utilization/performance data

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 22 Jan 2004 10:49:55 GMT

Atttaching my handy perf data collection script.

It runs background, uses sar and you as the user get to set the length of the collection period.

Originally HP support gave it to me. I've upgraded it substantially.

SEP