<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Its been a few years since I was managing 600 Linux servers at my work, so forgot what all tools I had in place for data collection for Operations to monitor. </span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Not sure if anyone here uses AIX, but IBM has a cool tool which works on AIX and Linux - nmon. It updates the screen similar to top, but unlike top, its statistics can be sent to a spreadsheet and there are tools available to create graphs on excel, for those who like to pictures than statistics.</span> <br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/WikiPtype/nmon">http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/WikiPtype/nmon</a></span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">-GGR</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" clear="all"><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/1/27 Jim Sansing <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jjsansing@verizon.net">jjsansing@verizon.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I googled for 'linux system performance monitor' and most of it was old<br>
and explained how to use top, vmstat, and iostat. But there is a Perl<br>
program that claims to be a step up called collectl<br>
(<a href="http://collectl.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://collectl.sourceforge.net/</a>). See if it does the trick, and if so<br>
let us know.<br>
<br>
Later . . . Jim<br>
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Jason C. Miller wrote:<br>
> Hey all. :)<br>
><br>
> I'm looking for a good way to monitor resource usage for a linux machine.<br>
> Redirecting 'top' to a file only goes so far and I'm NOT looking to do<br>
> something as drastic as SNMP. Here's what I'm looking for<br>
> in a solution:<br>
><br>
> 1. No extra software purchase/download necessary<br>
> 2. If software download is mandatory, that it be extremely minimalistic<br>
> 3. Uses the default linux toolbox of utilities<br>
> 4. Something thorough (seperate CPUs, memory, I/O)<br>
><br>
> It could be that something simple already exists and that I've missed it.<br>
> If you know of a cool utility, script, or method that I can use to<br>
> accomplish this, please chime in.<br>
><br>
> ~j<br>
><br>
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