HP-UX process monitoring tools

[MartyB]

Hello, I am coming from the Linux world where I'm pretty well versed in what I can do when I want to know more about a process that's acting weird. What are some tools available to me to see exactly what a process is doing?

I have used glance, which is quite useful, but I'm looking for more process specific tools. Examples might be the equivalent to strace in Linux (apparently the strace in HP-UX is NOT the same thing), or the info obtained in /proc/, or just /proc in general on Linux..

Thanks!!

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

The 'glance' utility is probably one of the finest tools for performance monitoring of HP-UX since (in particular) it is architected for the HP-UX kernel.

The equivalent of 'strace' would be 'tusc' which can be obtained from the HP-UX Porting center:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/tusc-7.9/

I'm sure that you are also familar with 'lsof'. That too can be fetched from the Porting center:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/lsof-4.78/

Unlike Linux, HP-UX does not implement the '/proc' filesystem.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Aashique]

Hi,
you can use top command for monitoring process.
Another script "kmeminfo" will tell you the details of all process and memory status in details.

Thanks & Regards

Aashique

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi,

also have a look at the "HP-UX Performance and Analysis Tools" page for more tools provided by HP:


http://h20331.www2.hp.com/Hpsub/cache/286022-0-0-225-121.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN


hope this helps!
kind regards
yogeeraj

[Dennis Handly]

If you are on Integrity, you can use caliper to measure your processes:
http://www.hp.com/go/caliper

[MartyB]

thanks everyone, these are all very helpful!