Software to monitor system uptime

[Jerry_109]

Hello All,

We are looking for software to monitor Operation System uptime over 30 period, and,
generate graphs to reflect this information.

Most of our systems are as follows:

HP-UX B.11.11 U 9000/800
rp7410, rp3440, rp3410

Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks Jerry

[Steven E. Protter]

Your sytems already monitor this.

run the command:

uptime

You can do it with cron and collect the output in a file or email.

SEP

[Jerry_109]

sorry I meant to put "over 30 day period",
and generate graphs.

[Pete Randall]

Jerry,

HP-UX is so inherently stable that I'm afraid your graph would be a flat line. I've got servers that have been up for month. Other people talk about servers that have been up for years. I would think that printing out the /etc/shutdownlog would better server your purpose.


Pete

[Victor BERRIDGE · Accepted solution]

Hi,
You could always install Big brother to generate status and graphs...
http://www.quest.com/bigbrother/

All the best
Victor

[Jerry_109]

thanks all, but this is for management. They
like pictures, even if it does show a thin line. Someone suggested measureware. Have you utilized this product to produce such results? Yes the shutdownlog can be "cut, and
pasted" but it needs to calculated.

[Steven E. Protter]

Glance is a graphical performance monitoring product. Run in X windows, it will allow you to take nice pictures.

Atternatively you can collect performance data by script and import the data into an Excel spreadsheets and acheive a breathtaking, nice to look at flat graph.

Attaching some scripts that might help collect the data.

SEP

[Paul F. Carlson]

Use a cron job to capture uptime statistics, parse it with a shell, awk or perl script, and then use gnuplot (http://www.gnuplot.info) to create a graph of your results. You can save your graph with gnuplot in .png format to give to your management.

[Scot Bean]

I am not sure MeasureWare / Glance is what you will want. It is at too low a level, showing the machine's local performance over time, the display graphs are 4 hours max.

[Geoff Wild]

Big Brother can be used - web based but not really graphical....

Make you own graphs with Measureware data..

I do this from cron:


# performance
55 23 * * 1-5 /opt/perf/bin/extract -xp -r /home/gwild/zgbltemplate -g -b today 7:00 -e today 18:00 -f stdout | /bin/mailx -s 'performance report' gwild@mydomain.ca >/dev/null 2>&1



# cat /home/gwild/zgbltemplate
REPORT "MWA Export on !SYSTEM_ID"
FORMAT ASCII
HEADINGS ON
SEPARATOR="|"
SUMMARY=60
MISSING=0
DATA TYPE GLOBAL
YEAR
DATE
TIME
GBL_CPU_TOTAL_UTIL
GBL_MEM_UTIL
GBL_SWAP_SPACE_UTIL
GBL_MEM_CACHE_HIT_PCT
GBL_DISK_UTIL_PEAK
GBL_FS_SPACE_UTIL_PEAK


Rgds...Geoff