HPUX 11.x Monitoring

[RASE_1]

I would like to set up a basic monitoring in order to remove all processes which consume too much CPU.
Is it a free tool or any other script?

Thanks

[Alex Lavrov.]

Yes, there are some great tools:

http://www.zabbix.com
http://www.nagios.org

I prefer Zabbix, because it's much simplier than nagios. The problem is, that Zabbix, doesn't have any buil it monitors for HPUX, so you'll have to provide the script, but it's not a problem.

With sar and ps you can see the cpu usage and find the "heaviest" process in the system.

I used them both on HPUX servers and they both work fine.

Alex.

[Alex Lavrov.]

Well, if you reopened the thread, I can add that I can send you some scripts for Zabbix that I wrote for my hpux boxes.


Alex.

[Pravin Salgaonkar]

hi

u can use top and sar which r free tools. also u can get evaluation version of glance which is free u need to get a evaluation license from hp the software is in the installation cd.i have a script for monitoring provided by someone i dont know but on this forum.attaching the script.

regards
Pravin S

[RASE_1]

I would appreciate to receive examples. Thanks a lot

[Bharat Katkar]

Hi,

sar is most useful and free tool to monitor the CPU usage. you can use sar command as:

# sar -u 1 10

Here 1 is the time interval in sec to collect the sample and 10 is no of samples to collect.

It will return the output in this manner.

08:16:59 %usr %sys %wio %idle
08:17:00 1 1 0 98
08:17:01 0 1 0 99
08:17:02 0 0 0 100
08:17:03 0 1 0 99
08:17:04 0 0 0 100
08:17:05 1 4 1 94
08:17:06 0 1 0 99
08:17:07 3 1 0 96
08:17:08 1 4 0 95
08:17:09 0 0 0 100

Average 1 1 0 98

Try to understand the significance of each column and it's value. To know more see man sar.

Also attaching performance cookbook for more reference.

Hope that helps.
Regards,

[Bharat Katkar]

I got error attaching file ...tryioing one more time

[Alex Lavrov. · Accepted solution]

Here are the scripts I used with zabbix.

[Basheer_2]

Hi

Other free tool is top which can be used interactive or in a script like this

top -n 300 -f top.log

Thanks
Basheer

[Borislav Perkov]

Hi Rase,

Here is one script for memory top users.

Regards,
Borislav

[RASE_1]

Thanks for your help.
I'm able now to get a list of 'undesirable' process.