Performance monitoring tool

[PSS SYS ADMIN]

Hi everyone,
I'm serching for a tool, or script for performance monitoring (cpu,memory,disk,network) to run on an hpux 11.00.
I need, if it possible to create graphics of the results.

Regards...
PSS

[fario · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The best tool I know to do that is Glance Plus.

It's by far the best performance tool I've ever seen.

You can have a trial for 3 months.

regards.

[Chris Wilshaw]

Either BMC Patrol or HP OpenView will probably be able to meet your needs.

[Alan Deger]

Don't forget the venerable (and free) MRTG. Creates HTML/GIFS of just about any SNMP variable you want. Did I mention that it's free?

-ard

[PSS SYS ADMIN]

Where can I founf MRTG?

Regards...
PSS

[J._1]

PSS - you can find MRTG @ www.mrtg.org

I find it best to use RRDtool for storing the databases and creating customized performance graphs... (www.rrdtool.org)

A fellow just put together a decent whitepaper (http://www.enterastream.com/whitepapers/mrtg/mrtg-manual.html) on how to setup MRTG along with RRDtool - I highly recommend useing these!

I've attached a sample graph with multiple servers/cpu loads.

Enjoy.

[Cameron Moredock]

I agree with J. RRDTool is the best open/free tool. It is highly extensible, and can be utilized to a great degree with just simple shell scripts.

Toby (the author) has put together a great site with wonderful instructions.

http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/

[Ronald Cogen]

Hello PSS,

Well. I don't know whether or not it is really recommendable to start using freeware performance management tools. Maybe that depends entirely on your creative cababilities.

But, whatever you do, it might be worthwhile to distinguish between realtime management and long term (statistical) performance management. To complete the real time observation task there is Glance, which also has, in addition to the command line interface, a nice GUI with a good help tool. In the second case there is HP Vatage Point Performance Adviser, which utilizes the performance data from a MeasureWare 'client' and retrieves it back to a central management station. It's nice because you can intergrate it within the general ITO (Open View) environment. It provides good customisable statistics for long range planning and short term retrospective analysis.
I'm not too keen on pure SNMP-based infos. There not enough.
There are two good books which deal with these themes extenively nad should be read.
1) HP Open View: A Managers Guide (McGrawHill series on Computer comunications ISBN:0-07-031382-2
2)HP-UX Tuning and Performance: Concepts, Tools and Methods (Hewlett-Packard Professional books) ISBN:0-13-102716-6

Regards,
Ron

[Asif Sharif]

Hi PSS,

You can download MRTG from this site.

http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/pub/

I think its best for monitoring. I used it three years back its free.

Regards,

Asif Sharif

[Ivan Ferreira]

If you want a free software, and don't want to work too much, you could use ganglia:

http://ganglia.info