SAR output (ASCII)

[Mike Keys]

Is it possible to run sar via a cron job and have the output written to an ASCII compatible file. I woul like to capture the sar data and ship to someone else. I realize that it is written as binary and that I can review the old logs.

[Alex Lavrov.]

AFAIK sar's output is ascii ... You can put some script in crontab that runs sar and redirecting the output into the file.

Just "man sar" to see all the options and that's it. Hmm, why did you think it outputs binary data or am I missing somethin?

[Steven E. Protter]

I've posted a series of sar scripts that does that very thing.

Here is a copy attached.

SEP

[Rick Garland]

There are many different options to getting results from sar.

Here is one that will produce results from CPU, buffers, swap, IO, etc...

Whatever you think of.

Listed below is the cron entry. This is producing the binary output.

# will produce output every 20 min during work hours
# and hourly otherwise
#0 * * * 0,6 /usr/lbin/sa/sa1
#0 7-18 * * 1-5 /usr/lbin/sa/sa1 1200 3
#0 19-6 * * 1-5 /usr/lbin/sa/sa1


Attached is a script that will parse and convert the binary output into ASCII output.

Notice this script will create and keep all stats by day. Up to you to make sure to rotate the files.

[Cem Tugrul]

Hi Mike,

take a look my attachment about "Check system
activity with sar"

Good Luck,

[Pete Randall]

Mike,

You need to take a look at the man page for sa1. The sadc, sa1, sa2 suite is setup to do exactly what you're after.


Pete