SUMMARY Performance Monitoring Tools

From: andy@immail001.flutter.com
Date: Mon Sep 30 2002 - 05:35:34 EDT


Thanks to Jesper Frank Nemholt and Mike Deacy.

I will be using Jesper's tool statdb as it interfaces with collect
so well. In addition I will be installing the System V tools

Rgds
Andy Pavitt

Andy:

If you're familiar with sar, I believe it is loadable under Tru64, probably
under System V tools / Associated Products. I've used it in other versions
of Unix - not in Tru64. If you search the archives, I think there was
something in the last year regarding it. It seems to measure about anything
you would want - reports back in tabular/numeric form.

Hope that is of help.

Mike Deacy

PAWZ has been rebranded to PerfCap ( http://www.perfcap.com/ )

Secondly there are a couple of tools that are not exactly performance monitoring tools,
but can be used as such. BMC Patrol and BMC Best/1. The latter can do alot more than
just performance monitoring. Downside is that these product cost money, especially Best/1.

Performance Manager. Comes with the OS and has a huge amount of data available via SNMP
plus a X-Windows interface. Comes with Tru64 and is thus "freeware".

Cacti ( http://www.raxnet.net/products/cacti/ and my personal at
http://cacti.dassic.com/graph_view.php?action=tree ).
It's a MySQL based frontend to RRDTool. Doesn't collect performance statistics by itself
but is good for storing the data and creating nice web graphics.
It makes use of RRDTool much easier.
Cacti supports SNMP so you can make it interface to the Tru64 SNMP and especially the
Performance Manager SNMP data.
It's OpenSource.

StatDB ( http://statdb.dassic.com/ ). It's a product I've made. It's a MySQL (or Oracle) based web
interface and database solution for performance data from Collect and various other performance data collectors.
It's OpenSource.
--
Un saludo / Venlig hilsen / Regards

Jesper Frank Nemholt
Unix System Manager
Hewlett-Packard Company



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