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CPU Usage Report (historical)

Marylou Kohlmeier — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:30:37 GMT

Is there a way to run a CPU usage report from previous days/months? I'm trying to gather information to justify a case during our "registration" period here at our campus.

Any info will be appreciated.

thank you,
Marylou

Re: CPU Usage Report (historical)

Mel Burslan — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:07:59 GMT

If you are or were running measureware (part of glance package, check process called mwa), you should have this data in the log files. Log files are placed in /var/opt/perf/datafiles.

If you have these files :

logappl
logdev
logglob
logindx
logpcmd0
logproc
logtran

you can use extract utility (if you do not have a graphical performance analysis tool that is) to get textual data out of them.

Hope this helps.

Re: CPU Usage Report (historical)

Marylou Kohlmeier — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:29:12 GMT

root:/var/opt/perf/datafiles #ll
total 1904
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 472 Feb 26 2007 .glancerc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 7540 Feb 26 2007 .gpm
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 958411 Dec 5 2007 mikslp.db

These are all the files I have under the directory above and cannot find any with logdev, etc

Marylou

Re: CPU Usage Report (historical)

kevin_m — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:33:26 GMT

Are you by chance running sar? Check for the process using 'ps -ef|grep sad'. It will keep 30 days worth of history that has CPU statistics. Or just type 'sar' and see if you get any output. The default results are for the current day.
- Kevin

Re: CPU Usage Report (historical)

Marylou Kohlmeier — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:38:27 GMT

If you use "SAR", how will you get the info for, let's say, last May?

Re: CPU Usage Report (historical)

Bill Hassell — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:47:13 GMT

There is no history kept automatically. You would have to already be running sar, glance or other tool with logs being kept. If not, there is no history data to look at.

Re: CPU Usage Report (historical)

kevin_m — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:51:58 GMT

Do you see any files in /var/adm/sa? Sar keeps 31 days of history in that directory (if it's been running that long). You could get information before that by restoring older files from backups. That's not the easiest solution but using sar for recent data is much faster than formatting the output of the extract command.

Re: CPU Usage Report (historical)

Marylou Kohlmeier — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:55:17 GMT

sdisk
1/0/14/1/0.10.4.0.0.0.4
sdisk
1/0/0/3/1.2.0
4.0.0.0.4
root:/var/adm/sa #

I have plenty of files under /var/adm/sa, but they are all about sdisk

Re: CPU Usage Report (historical)

kevin_m — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:09:29 GMT

As suggested you might not have any history then. Check for the sad process or a crontab entry in case the files are located somewhere else. If it's not running I'd suggest adding it going forward. As an example this will capture stats at 10 minute intervals:
0 * * * * /usr/lbin/sa/sa1 600 6