topic Re: System tools in Operating System - Linux

System tools

juno2 — Thu, 14 Aug 2003 10:09:01 GMT

I would like to have a tools ,application that can periodically record the system resources - memory utilization , CPU utilization , daily harddisk size checking report , user login report etc , this report is for me and my boss to monitor the resource usage status , execpt writing script , is there any tools/applicaton can periodically generate such kind of report ? thx

Re: System tools

twang — Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:03:23 GMT

You should take a look at this tool:
http://storm.uni-mb.si/MTool/mtool.html

Re: System tools

twang — Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:05:59 GMT

And some tools from BMC:
http://bmc.com/products/results/0,3092,0_,00.html

Re: System tools

Patrick Van Humbeeck — Thu, 14 Aug 2003 14:52:09 GMT

you may want to check out sar (system activity reporter). It comes by default with many unix systems and can track and report all these things for you.
If you cannot find a package for your system have a look at http://www.gnu.org/directory/sysadmin/Monitor/sysstat.html

Re: System tools

juno2 — Fri, 15 Aug 2003 07:37:33 GMT

Thx all reply,

sorry to my ignorance first, I downloaded the package that patrick suggest and had extracted it , how can I run the program ? do I need to install it ? thx.

rw-r--r-- 1 500 users 1273 Nov 12 2002 sysstat-4.0.7.lsm
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 users 4645 Nov 12 2002 common.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 users 1448 Nov 12 2002 common.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 users 17188 Nov 12 2002 iostat.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 users 2638 Nov 12 2002 iostat.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 users 15060 Nov 12 2002 mpstat.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 users 854 Nov 12 2002 mpstat.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 users 42540 Nov 12 2002 sadc.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 users 16649 Nov 12 2002 sa.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 users 290 Nov 12 2002 sapath.in
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 users 240 Nov 12 2002 version.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 users 108559 Nov 12 2002 sar.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 users 17158 Nov 12 2002 CHANGES
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 users 4074 Nov 11 2002 CREDITS
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 users 8596 Aug 24 2002 FAQ
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 users 11023 Aug 24 2002 Makefile
drwxr-xr-x 3 500 users 4096 Jun 2 2002 build
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 users 4710 May 12 2002 README
drwxr-xr-x 4 500 users 4096 May 11 2002 contrib
drwxr-xr-x 2 500 users 4096 May 10 2002 man
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 users 724 May 10 2002 TODO
drwxr-xr-x 11 500 users 4096 Feb 2 2002 nls
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 users 393 Dec 30 2001 sa2.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 users 273 Dec 30 2001 sa1.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 users 651 Jun 1 2000 sysstat.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 users 649 Mar 26 2000 crontab.sample
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 users 17982 Nov 28 1999 COPYING

Re: System tools

Michael Armbrecht — Fri, 15 Aug 2003 08:04:18 GMT

Looks like a source package to me.
Have a look at the README file -- it usually tells you what to do to install the software.
I see there is a file called FAQ, too, I would have a good look at that file, too.

Usually to install source packages, you have to run
make
make install
make clean

I don't see a configure script, so you probably have to check for system dependencies for yourself (the README file!).

Re: System tools

Lawrence Staberg — Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:06:54 GMT

Try the following:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/status/sysstat-4.1.5-1.src.rpm

This assumes you have a rpm system..

Or you could setup apt-get and get the not so latest
from freshrpms.net.