topic Re: Process statistics monitor (free software) in Operating System - HP-UX

Process statistics monitor (free software)

JackFlash — Thu, 27 Jul 2000 21:29:18 GMT

Hi guys,
Any idea of a free sources for a performance monitor that can display a process statistics (all types and
amounts of system calls, open files, etc.)
It's Something similar to GLANCE process monitor
section.

Re: Process statistics monitor (free software)

Antoanetta Naghiu — Thu, 27 Jul 2000 21:36:08 GMT

Hi,
"Home made" scripts base in vmstat, top, netstat, iostat, bdf, nettl, lpstat, swapinfo and so on. Tail or grep log file (syslog, backup log). I am not aware about any free software for performance monitor.

Re: Process statistics monitor (free software)

JackFlash — Thu, 27 Jul 2000 21:45:37 GMT

Thanks Antoanetta for your answer.
Still I need more details in one shot about a process.
For example the sum of calls that trace utility gathered.
Maybe "ktop" offers that (runs on linux and others but I am not aware of HPUX version - like all kde applications, ktop will need QT environment for HP and
such).

Re: Process statistics monitor (free software)

Manju Kampli — Thu, 27 Jul 2000 22:46:43 GMT

you can use "sar" and "top" from the HP UX which comes with OS. these are very handy to start with.

Re: Process statistics monitor (free software)

Antoanetta Naghiu — Thu, 27 Jul 2000 23:48:53 GMT

Sar is a very good tool. For report process data, try timex. (see man timex). There is an old tool for counting resources used, acct. I never use it but you can try. (man acct). For network you can add ndd (HP11), nettune (HP10.20).
Good luck!

Re: Process statistics monitor (free software)

Rick Garland — Fri, 28 Jul 2000 00:44:49 GMT

Writing a short script would be easy to in collecting the data. The /usr/lbin/sa/sa1 will collect most of the data you are seeking. The call /usr/lbin/sa/sa2 to convert the binary output to text output and you have the stats. You can place in cron to run periodically through the day. The script can include other stats to get you the info such as vmstat, nfsstat, netttl, etc., for more info. The closest I have come was a perl script called 'sarge', the system activity report graphing engine. Problem with it however is it does not use some of the HP-UX specific sar options - not able to get info regarding swap as an example.

Re: Process statistics monitor (free software)

Mike Nemeth — Fri, 28 Jul 2000 12:03:12 GMT

look at dmon at :
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/
Software Porting And Archive Centre for HP-UX

Also seach the net for a later version:
dmon_1.7.2b.
This may require a little hacking.

Re: Process statistics monitor (free software)

Anthony Goonetilleke — Mon, 31 Jul 2000 06:35:26 GMT

Yaakov,
There are a lot of utilities out there are very good and free but hardly any combine al the functionalities of glance.

Have a look
http://www.ugu.com
http://www.rootprompt.org/

and do a search on these you will find many and its a matter of what exacty you want to do.