I apologise for the late summary.
Thanks for all the responses to my request for SunOS monitoring tools.
I received several replies.
Original question:
> Does anyone know of any tools to monitor SunOS 4.X based machines? I
> am looking for something similar to the sar utility of the System V world.
> How do others monitor machine performance? I currently use the *stat commands
> to view the machine at selected times. Anyone written any scripts to
> manipulate the output of the *stat into some useful reports?
Answers:
1) Several people mentioned using top, vmpage, nfswatch, mon, ethertop.
All are freely available from ftp sites. Check archie for your
nearest archive.
I had a look at top3 and nfswatch. Both proved usefull for getting
system performance data. However what I ended up doing is writing my
own C program to get the data from the kernel and writing it to a
data file. This meant I could produce graphs and reports easier.
I plan to use GNUplot to produce graphs I need.
2) John Cieply suggested NETUSE (readme included below). Looks interesting
I will have a look at this as well. I think this would be usefull at
sites with a large number of hosts or a hetrogenous site.
3) SunNet manager software from Sun. Is an SNMP network monitor program
that can be used to monitor Sun machines.
4) Dennis Bare (and others) listed the following commercial packages
Netmetrix by Metrix Network Systems
One Tara Boulevard
Nashua, NH 03062
EcoSystems Software Inc.
10055 Miller Ave., Suite 201
Cupertino CA 95014
Scott Hammond
1-408-252-3801 x109
EcoSphere
Provides system management; server, network and
database (Oracle) performance monitoring. We have just
began an in house evaluation.
AIM Technology
4699 Old Ironsides Dr. Suite 150
Santa Clara, CA 95054
1-800-848-UNIX
Marta Inanchy (Regional Sales Manager)
marta@aim.com
SharpShooter
Provides network and kernel performance monitoring. We
evaluated SharpShooter 1.3. New version 2.0 will be available
in June 1993. We will be looking at it when it is available.
Landmark Systems Corp.
8000 Towers Crescent Dr
Vienna, VA 22182-2700
1-800-333-8666
ProbeX & ProbeNet
Provides system and network performance monitoring. We
looked at earlier versions not up-to-date with the latest
releases.
Hewlett Packard
1-800-237-3990 (HP Direct)
HP GlancePlus
Provides system performance monitoring. We looked at this
product latest year I have no current information
5) Kevin Sheehan also sent me some accounting programs that were also
posted as a sun-managers summary last week.
Many thanks to all:
Andrew Watson <ajw@ansa.co.uk>
John W. Cieply" <JWC@icf.hrb.com>
barnes@sde.mdso.vf.ge.com (Barnes William)
David Lee <T.D.Lee@durham.ac.uk>
rwolf@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca
toddl@aria.smec.sony.com (Todd Lomaro)
shandelm@jpmorgan.com (Joel Shandelman)
jtcummi@sandia.gov
ups!kalli!kevin@fourx.aus.sun.com (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})
From: Corvil Howells <corvilh@sa-cgy.valmet.com>
cameron@cs.adelaide.edu.au (Cameron Humphries)
dbare@baosc.com (Dennis Bare)
Rodney Campbell <rodney@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au>
-------------------- README for NETUSE ----------------------
NETUSE - A Network Host Usage Monitoring System
Lee Liming and Michael L. Neil
Computer Aided Engineering Network
The University of Michigan
NETUSE is a low-budget, high-output network service used for keeping track of
dynamic information about hosts on a TCP/IP network. It is not limited to
physical networks; i.e., it's monitoring crosses routers. It monitors and
updates load averages, number of login sessions, display use, free disk space
in /tmp, host names, and vendor and model types for a (potentially large)
number of hosts. All of these items are determined dynamically by the system.
One never needs to tell NETUSE anything (other than to run).
Rather than being based on broadcasts, which are limited to physical networks
and which require processing time from all hosts on the network, NETUSE takes
a client-server approach. Periodic reports are sent directly to a server via
UDP, and the server may subsequently be queried for near-instantaneous
information.
This service was originally developed for assistance with large-scale,
course-grained distributed processing (running jobs on lots and lots of
hosts!). It's strong points are low bandwidth requirements, speed of queries,
self-maintenance, and versatility.
NETUSE has been in wide use at CAEN for several years now, and we've been
adding features and making it more robust through most of that time. We now
feel that it's "good enough" (in terms of robustness and usefulness) to be
distributed more broadly.
The REAL documentation is in the ./doc directory, in several formats
(including plain old ASCII).
/******************************************************************************
Copyright (C) 1992 by the Regents of the University of Michigan.
User agrees to reproduce said copyright notice on all copies of the software
made by the recipient.
All Rights Reserved. Permission is hereby granted for the recipient to make
copies and use this software for its own internal purposes only. Recipient of
this software may re-distribute this software outside of their own
institution. Permission to market this software commercially, to include this
product as part of a commercial product, or to make a derivative work for
commericial purposes, is explicitly prohibited. All other uses are also
prohibited unless authorized in writing by the Regents of the University of
Michigan.
This software is offered without warranty. The Regents of the University of
Michigan disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including but not
limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for any
particular purpose. In no event shall the Regents of the University of
Michigan be liable for loss or damage of any kind, including but not limited
to incidental, indirect, consequential, or special damages.
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