performance monitoring

[Don Mallory]

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if anyone knows of a performance monitoring tool that is out of the GPL or other open license (read: free).

I have a non-critical node that I'd like some general performance stats on, but there is no money available for the purchse of GlancePlus or the MeasureWare agents.

It doesn't really help now that everything has gone to a per-CPU licensing model. (does anyone know what OnlineJFS needs to be licensed per CPU anyways?)

Thanks,
Don

[Pete Randall]

Don,

In the *free* market, I'm afraid you're stuck with the old standbys: vmstat, iostat, sar, etc.

And I'm not sure what your question about OnlineJFS is - did you mean "why"? how much?

[Anil C. Sedha]

Don,

The best way to do performance monitoring is to use the text based tool - SAR

It is a System Accounting Report which provides statistics of varying kinds. You can set it up as your requirement and use.

I have used it in the past, when a client i worked for did not have licenses for PerfView or GlancePlus.

Do a man sar to get more info or look it up on docs.hp.com

Thanks
Anil

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

http://www.hpux.ws/system.perf.sh

SEP

[Bharat Katkar]

Hi Don,

You can always use:

# sar
# top
# vmstat
# iostat
# swapinfo
# bdf

Regards,

[Raj D.]

Hi Don ,

Here is few samples:

# sar -u -M 5 5
# vmstat 5 5
# iostat 5 5
# swapinfo -tm
# top
# ps -el | sort -r -k10 | head -10 [ to see 10 biggest process taking memory.]

# lsof [also can be used to see open files open ports and much more.]
Check: http://hpux.cs.utah.edu

Cheers,
Raj.

[Don Mallory]

Thanks everyone, I'll give those a try. I also notice 'yamm' on the porting and archiving centre.

[Raj D.]

Hi Don ,

Here is the script you are looking for free:

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uname -a > /tmp/HP_info
model >> /tmp/HP_info
uptime >> /tmp/HP_info
swlist -l bundle >> /tmp/HP_info
bdf >> /tmp/HP_info
swapinfo -ta >> /tmp/HP_info
cat /etc/fstab >> /tmp/HP_info
lvlnboot -v >> /tmp/HP_info
vgdisplay -v >> /tmp/HP_info
lanscan >> /tmp/HP_info
ioscan -fn >> /tmp/HP_info
cat /etc/inittab >> /tmp/HP_info
dmesg >> /tmp/HP_info
crontab -l >> /tmp/HP_info
swlist -l fileset >> /tmp/HP_info
/usr/bin/top -f /tmp/HP_perf_info
cat /stand/system >> /tmp/HP_perf_info
nohup sar -qM 1 600 > /tmp/HP_perf_info.report &
nohup sar -uM 1 600 > /tmp/HP_perf_info.cpu &
nohup sar -b 1 600 > /tmp/HP_perf_info.buffer &
nohup sar -d 1 600 > /tmp/HP_perf_info.disk &
nohup sar -w 1 600 > /tmp/HP_perf_info.swap &
nohup sar -v 1 600 > /tmp/HP_perf_info.inode &
sysdef >> /tmp/HP_perf_info

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hope this will help ..

Cheers,
Raj.