Primitive way of checking the system!!!

[khilari]

Hi people, i was just wondering what if we dont have any third party monitoring tools such as glance or sar. How do u think we will be able to monitor for problems??. Can any body tell me as to the solutions of day to day sys admins problems. example processor speed is slow?, how do u trim log files etc etc.
Any body knows a good hp site or document to go deep into crontab.... And finally lets say if a system shuts down all of a sudden and applications are running in an environement where there is no high availability then as a system admin what are the steps that u will take..

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi,

A good tool to monitor your HP-UX servers is SEP's http://www.hpux.ws/buildmail.hpux.text

-Arun

[Muthukumar_5 · Accepted solution]

Lots of thread are available in search as,

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Muthu

[Steven E. Protter]

On a purely technical level, Arunvijai violates the premise of the question. Since "my" tool, which is really an improvement I made on a toolset HP uses, uess sar. sar is free and I believe every hp-ux system has it, so its a good tool.

Online diagnostic tools, free at software.hp.com will also monitor and email. I include EMS in this bundle, which may not be strictly correct. It can be configured to monitor and communicate with system admins.

There is another script I posted called checkhardware.sh It scan shows the principle of scanning the syslog /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log for critical information that indicates faults like lbolt and sending out an email if anything is wrong.

I will make sure checkhardware.sh is at hpux.ws at http://www.hpux.ws/checkhardware.sh later todday.

SEP

[Arunvijai_4]

Hello,

Some more tools from HP's DSPP

(Registration required and its free)

http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/dld/dld_DownloadsListingPage_IDX/1,2381,11169,00.html

-Arun

[MarkSyder]

Trimming log files is easy - use SAM -> routine tasks.

As for what to do if a system shuts down all of a sudden, the steps to take when it comes up are:

1. Check the file /var/adm/syslog/OLDsyslog.log to see if it gives any indication as to why the system crashed

2. check for a recent entry in /var/adm/crash or /var/tombstones. These are both probably best examined by HP rather than the sys. admin.

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)