Performance monitoring tools - RHL Enterprise 3.0

[John Garrott]

I'm interesting in finding one or more real-time performance monitoring tools for RHL Enterprise 3.0 comparable to Glance Plus. Even better would be a tool that can collect stats over time, along the lines of HP's MeasureWare/PerfView.
I'm familiar with sar and the sa1 script but I would prefer something more polished and less labor-intensive with integrated graphing and trending capabilities.

Any suggestions would be appreciated; it doesn't need to be free, just cost-effective.

Thanks,
John

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

I thought Glance had been ported to Linux. Perhaps not.

Anyway, gtop will give you a nice gui look.

If you port the HP-UX sar script I'm attaching, you can collect data over time.

If you get it working and post it back to any of my Linux threads that will earn you a 10 point bunny.

See attachment.

SEP

[The Real MD]

glance has definately been ported to linux.

http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/tech/tech_TechSoftwareDetailPage_IDX/1,1703,1021,00.html

hope this helps

also

sar, top

[Edmund White]

I use ORCA for all of my servers....

http://www.orcaware.com/orca/example_sites.html
or
http://orca.swc.com

There's a bit of setup time needed, but once you've configured things, it's a wonderful tool.

[John Garrott]

Edmund,

The output from ORCA certainly looks impressive. What does this software cost? Hopefully it's not priced up there in the stratosphere like BMC Patrol. And in the event that it is affordable, where can I get it?

John

[Edmund White]

John, ORCA is free.... as long as you have the time and patience to set it up. I can help with the specifics, if you'd like. Let me know. Once an initial data-collection server is setup, deploying new servers takes less than a minute. In my case, I have 90+ servers all over North America reporting to me. ORCA is even easier if everything is on an internal network.