topic Re: HP-UX System resource Monitoring in Operating System - HP-UX

HP-UX System resource Monitoring

Rick Sandlin — Fri, 27 Dec 2002 16:39:07 GMT

I need to monitor system resources on an old 9.05 system running on HP-743(VME) processors. So far, all I can come up with is running commands manually, such as 'sar', 'iostat', 'vmstat', etc... I have been searching for some type of utility that will automate this process and give me usable output concerning processes and system utilization. Can someone please point me to some such utility, or does anything like that even exist for the old 9.05 operating environment?

Thanks!
Rick

Re: HP-UX System resource Monitoring

Martin Johnson — Fri, 27 Dec 2002 17:51:00 GMT

I think "top" was available for 9.05, but I haven't a clue where you would get it for such an old version of HPUX.

You actually got thru Y2K with such an old version? I'm impressed!

HTH
Marty

Re: HP-UX System resource Monitoring

Frank Slootweg — Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:46:07 GMT

What are you looking for that sar, iostat and vmstat (and, as Martin mentions, top) do not provide?

Basically the current (10.X/11.X) tools are the same as those on 9.X, so you can apply most anything you read about the current tools to yours. The only exceptions are the optional product like Glance, MeasureWare, etc.. It is probably not possible/feasible to buy these for (very) your old and (very) obsolete release.

Re: HP-UX System resource Monitoring

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 30 Dec 2002 14:13:58 GMT

You can use a sar script to do this.

This came from HP without warrantly, and I modified it.

You may need to change it more.

It works on HP-UX 11.00

If it helps, I can assist you in making changes so that you can control how long you collect performance data.

Buzz some points if its useful.

Steve

Re: HP-UX System resource Monitoring

Patrick Wallek — Mon, 30 Dec 2002 14:18:29 GMT

You can automate these tasks, and whatever else you want, by utilizing cron.

These should all be in root's cron. To edit your crontab file, do a

# crontab -e

For more information on cron and crontab, see the man pages.

# man cron

# man crontab

Re: HP-UX System resource Monitoring

T. M. Louah — Mon, 30 Dec 2002 16:41:05 GMT

I don't know wether Glance is supported on 9.x but here is a link:
http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/java/infolibrary/prog_guide/java1/measuring_sys_performance.html
Hope it helps!
Cheers,
T??

Re: HP-UX System resource Monitoring

Rick Sandlin — Tue, 31 Dec 2002 12:49:25 GMT

A couple of helpful ideas from you guys. Thanks for your inputs. I really have no problem collecting the data, as it were. My biggest problem is getting it formatted into something readable. Specifically, I would like to output to something like a graph or a bar chart. I would not be against buying perfview or glance or whatever might work. I'm just not sure what my best bet would be for getting what I want (or if it will work with 9.05).

Thanks again for your previous inputs. The community appreciates people like you.

Rick