Software & Hardware Audit

[Ahmad Munawwar]

Hi,

I'm interested to find out a tools that use by HP engineer to audit a system performance (OS & Hardware) for preventive maintenance and also a guide line to evaluate the result. Or if someone have other tools (not HP) for the same purpose. Would really appreciate for your input.

Regards,
Munawwar

[Massimo Bianchi]

Hi,


performance related

best tools are not free, and are mwa (for data gathering), glance (for instant check of parameters, a must have for every serious performance study), perfview (needed to analyze mwa data graphically over time).

free tools include many unix command, like top, ps, sar, vmstat, nfsstat.



hardware monitoring

Diagnostic tools (free), are shipped quarterly with the patches. Best known are EMS (event monitoring system) for continuos hw monitor and stm/xstm/cstm for ad hoc investigation


Massimo

[Tim D Fulford]

As Massimo said MeasureWare (it has now been re-branded as part of Open View, but I dont know its name), & Systems Tool Manager (STM) * Event Monitoring System (EMS)

We use both quite successfully. On the MeasureWare front, you can raise alarms on certain conditions (say a process taking up too much cpu etc) which is nifty.

What we do is try (we were successful) to find a system driver like number of queries or number of inserts. We found that if you also log this driver as well & plot say CPU Vs Driver, disk% Vs Driver, the whole "performance" of the box was simply representeed by a few straight lines. The gradient of the each line represented a performance indicator AND you knew when the box would run out of steam.

Good luck

Tim

[twang]

This script is to notify SA when the usage of a filesystem exceeds a "upperlimit". Run it using cron jobs daily in the morning.