System monitor

[Tim Leong_1]

Does anyone know of a good graphical system monitoring app that I can use under 11.0?

Thanks

[Brian Bergstrand · Accepted solution]

Glance (gpm). There is a 60-day trial version on your Applications CD. It is very good, and if you can afford it, well worth the price.

[Hai Nguyen_1]

You can purchase HP GlancePlus/UX.

Hai

[David Child_1]

If you get the GlancePlus/UX package you can also pull raw historical data from the MeasureWear data files and dump it into a Comma Separated File for easy import into a spreadsheet. This will get the same type of historical data that you could get from HP's PerfView utility (an optional historical performance display utility). It takes some manual modification/creation of some files, but it's not too hard to set it up.

As mentioned previously, even without using the historical data glance (gpm) is a great tool for checking out your servers performance stats.

David

[David Child_1]

If you get the GlancePlus/UX package you can also pull raw historical data from the MeasureWare data files and dump it into a Comma Separated File for easy import into a spreadsheet. This will get the same type of historical data that you could get from HP's PerfView utility (an optional historical performance display utility). It takes some manual modification/creation of some files, but it's not too hard to set it up.

As mentioned previously, even without using the historical data glance (gpm) is a great tool for checking out your servers performance stats.

David

[Tim Leong_1]

Thanks for the replies. It's a great product. It makes me a little upset that you have to pay for it though. A lot of other OS's come with a system monitor standard. I guess that's just the way it's done with HP though.

[RolandH]

Hey Tim,

can you more explain what you want to monitor?
Perhaps we can give you then a better commandation.

Roland

[Tim Leong_1]

I'm looking for something that would monitor Network, disk and CPU activity. I'm setting up an NFS server and would like something to reference if the performance is lagging.

[Brian Bergstrand]

Tim, there are non-GUI tools to monitor all of those.

sar will monitor disk, buffer-cache, and cpu usage. There are lots of options, man sar for more info.

netstat -i will give network stats.

If you want a GUI tool though, Glance is pretty much it.

HTH.

[Brian Bergstrand]

Forgot to mention nfsstat, that is a good tool to monitor the NFS protocol itself and can be an indicator for something wrong at a lower level.