Collecting Graphical System Information

[Keith Fuller_1]

Hi All

Please can anyone help me in my hour of need.

I am trying to find ways of collecting certain data from my hp-ux box and then being able to present this information in a graphical nature.

The sort of information I am trying to get is:

1, Workload per CPU (I have 6 CPU's)
2, memory usage over a certain period of time
3, Swap space usage

If there is anyone out there that knows how to do this, what software i need etc etc then I would be very very very grateful.

Just for info, I dont yet have CDE or its equivelant working so i cant use CDE utils.

Regards

Keith

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Keith

Glance will do what you require, there is a 60 day trial version on the instal CDs.

HTH

Paula

[Khalid A. Al-Tayaran]

Hi,

Try GlancePlus.

or BigBrother www.bb4.com


Regards.

[Pete Randall]

If you want to graph these metrics out to present to management, then you need to look into MeasureWare. Glance give a nice real-time snapshot but for data collection and presentation, you need to go one step further.

Pete

[fuji_ooh]

Hi,

There are a number of ways you can go about.
-I- This is the most complete method and not very expensive. I prefer collecting data with Measureware. Extract whatever you want to an ASCI file. Import this file to a spreadsheet and have the most sophisticated graph you want.
-II- The cheapest. Write a small script using sar/vmstat and collect data. Than as per the above, use a spreadsheet to draw the graphs.
-III-Buy PerfView solution from HP.

Cheers,
Florian