topic Re: Performance monitoring tool in Operating System - Linux

Performance monitoring tool

PSS SYS ADMIN — Thu, 05 Sep 2002 08:04:57 GMT

Hi everyone,
I'm serching for a tool, or script for performance monitoring (cpu,memory,disk,network) to run on an hpux 11.00.
I need, if it possible to create graphics of the results.

Regards...
PSS

Re: Performance monitoring tool

fario — Thu, 05 Sep 2002 08:19:11 GMT

Hi,

The best tool I know to do that is Glance Plus.

It's by far the best performance tool I've ever seen.

You can have a trial for 3 months.

regards.

Re: Performance monitoring tool

Chris Wilshaw — Thu, 05 Sep 2002 11:15:11 GMT

Either BMC Patrol or HP OpenView will probably be able to meet your needs.

Re: Performance monitoring tool

Alan Deger — Fri, 06 Sep 2002 14:00:00 GMT

Don't forget the venerable (and free) MRTG. Creates HTML/GIFS of just about any SNMP variable you want. Did I mention that it's free?

-ard

Re: Performance monitoring tool

PSS SYS ADMIN — Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:04:31 GMT

Where can I founf MRTG?

Regards...
PSS

Re: Performance monitoring tool

J._1 — Fri, 25 Oct 2002 18:08:28 GMT

PSS - you can find MRTG @ www.mrtg.org

I find it best to use RRDtool for storing the databases and creating customized performance graphs... (www.rrdtool.org)

A fellow just put together a decent whitepaper (http://www.enterastream.com/whitepapers/mrtg/mrtg-manual.html) on how to setup MRTG along with RRDtool - I highly recommend useing these!

I've attached a sample graph with multiple servers/cpu loads.

Enjoy.

Re: Performance monitoring tool

Cameron Moredock — Sun, 27 Oct 2002 23:02:30 GMT

I agree with J. RRDTool is the best open/free tool. It is highly extensible, and can be utilized to a great degree with just simple shell scripts.

Toby (the author) has put together a great site with wonderful instructions.

http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/

Re: Performance monitoring tool

Ronald Cogen — Mon, 28 Oct 2002 09:13:20 GMT

Hello PSS,

Well. I don't know whether or not it is really recommendable to start using freeware performance management tools. Maybe that depends entirely on your creative cababilities.

But, whatever you do, it might be worthwhile to distinguish between realtime management and long term (statistical) performance management. To complete the real time observation task there is Glance, which also has, in addition to the command line interface, a nice GUI with a good help tool. In the second case there is HP Vatage Point Performance Adviser, which utilizes the performance data from a MeasureWare 'client' and retrieves it back to a central management station. It's nice because you can intergrate it within the general ITO (Open View) environment. It provides good customisable statistics for long range planning and short term retrospective analysis.
I'm not too keen on pure SNMP-based infos. There not enough.
There are two good books which deal with these themes extenively nad should be read.
1) HP Open View: A Managers Guide (McGrawHill series on Computer comunications ISBN:0-07-031382-2
2)HP-UX Tuning and Performance: Concepts, Tools and Methods (Hewlett-Packard Professional books) ISBN:0-13-102716-6

Regards,
Ron

Re: Performance monitoring tool

Asif Sharif — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 07:06:07 GMT

Hi PSS,

You can download MRTG from this site.

http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/pub/

I think its best for monitoring. I used it three years back its free.

Regards,

Asif Sharif

Re: Performance monitoring tool

Ivan Ferreira — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 07:12:02 GMT

If you want a free software, and don't want to work too much, you could use ganglia:

http://ganglia.info