linux equivalent to glance

[someone_4]

Hello

Is there a linux equivalent to glance?

Richard

[Pete Randall]

Richard,

I'm afraid you're stuck with Top, Sar, vmstat, and all the other old standbyes - I've never heard of a Linux Glance.


Pete

[someone_4]

It doesnt have to be a glance or even an HP product. Just any util that will do basicly the same things as glance.

Richard

[Steven E. Protter]

There is no port.

You can get some of the information from the top command, some of the information from the sar command.

Here is a sar script that collects data and can be adapted to Linux.

SEP

[Tim Sanko]

I have asked this particular question previously when talking to people at HP's marketing, the questions become:

1.Which Linux,

2. How much can we charge for an application on a free Operating System.

Until these questions are answered, I doubt an HP version of Glance would ever be developed much less released or marketed.

Clearly It is a financial question, what would it take to be worth HP's money, and what is the financial return.


Tim

[someone_4]

Hi
we have tried sar,bonnie and other built in commands. But I have yet to find something to give me the equivalent to the glance output of "Disk IO Rate" and the "Disk Report"

\Richard

[Ramkumar Devanathan · Accepted solution]

Richard,

I wonder if this question is dated or you have asked HP support about this and found out something, or *I* don't understand your question at all :) -

GlancePlus (Ver 4) is available now and only on linux.

here's a doc which talks of this -

http://ovweb.external.hp.com/ovnsmdps/pdf/glance.pdf

HTH.

- ramd.

[S.K. Chan]

I doubt it. You may get bits and pieces of glance functionality for Linux but not the whole thing. Did you try searching ..
http://rpmfind.net
ie the Linux rpc resources. They are a lot of rpm package in there and if you spend some time you may find what you need. For example there is a package called "diskcheck" (used to monitor disk space) and depending on your Linux distribution, you can download and install them for your use. I have not look in detail for anything resembling glance.

[Pete Randall]

Sounds like Ramd has your solution, but I did come up with a couple possibilities, though I don't know how will they would fit your needs. Gnome has something called system-monitor and KDE has something called the info-center.


Pete

[someone_4]

Ram
that is what i am looking for and you understood the question just fine my friend.
You earned the bunny. =)

Now can you answer the bonus question.
Where can I download it? And is it the same as the hp glance that it has a free trial?

Richard

[someone_4]

Ram

I found it at
www.support.openview.hp.com


Thanks

Richard

[Steven E. Protter]

Yep,

I blew that one.

http://openview.hp.com/products/gplus/tc_gplus_0001.html

SEP

[John Meissner]

as for GUI interfaces you could use some of the following (Using Red Hat Linux)

Gnome system monitor
Guname (system information)
KControl (control center)
KDE System Guard

NOTE: I did note about that glance plus now runs under Linux but the above are also very useful and easy to use.

[Tim Sanko]

I have also gotten it, I want to thank those who also have asked about this product.

I have now got a tool for performance monitoring / tuning advising on linux.

My sales contacts had also forgotten about this request.
I am talking about my reseller, not my HP contacts...

Tim

[paul_516]

Glance appears to be free (unlike MeasureWare). If you want something a bit more serious to monitor Linux + HP-UX plus 'other' platforms on a console basis, then I use PerfCap PAWZ product (www.perfcap.com). At least I can now do performance analysis + capacity planning. Linux collector and agent is pretty reasonable. I use it on c 500 systems worldwide, including Linux (on VMware).

regards

pos

[rspowell605]

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[Matti_Kurkela]

While it does not have quite the same feature set as Glance, atop comes close. Besides, it's free.