topic Re: To check system activity data in Operating System - HP-UX

To check system activity data

Jayan Nair — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:49:32 GMT

Hello,

Is there any command or tool to check hp ux system activity data for last 10 days.

Thanks & Regards
Jay

Re: To check system activity data

Matti_Kurkela — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:30:54 GMT

What sort of activity data are you thinking about? History of user actions, or system performance statistics?

For user logins, see "man last". A more detailed timeline of user actions would be available if you had enabled auditing before the time you're interested in.

For system performance statistics, there is sar and its data collector process. It isn't enabled automatically: like auditing, you must set it up and define what data is collected and how often.

MK

Re: To check system activity data

Jayan Nair — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:29:30 GMT

Thanks MK,
Could you please explain more how to setup system auditing with sar

Regrads
Jay

Re: To check system activity data

Stefan Stechemesser — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:14:30 GMT

Hi Jay,

I could imagine that GlancePlus / Performance Agent could be interesting for you:

https://h10078.www1.hp.com/cda/hpms/display/main/hpms_content.jsp?zn=bto&cp=1-11-15-28^9637_4000_100__

best regards

Stefan

Re: To check system activity data

Md. Farhan A Azam — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:36:49 GMT

Hi,

You can use...

#sar -u 5 10
#sar -d 5 10
#sar -b 5 10

for more details....

#man sar

Re: To check system activity data

likid0 — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:28:22 GMT

An example of some sa1/sa2 commands that can go into a script and launch it from the crontab , with something similar to:

$SADIR/sa1 > $LOG 2>&1

$SADIR/sa2 -s 8:00 -e 18:01 -i 1200 -A >> $LOG 2>&1

man sa1 or man sar for more info