3.3 Stable Performance Monitoring

1999-10-22 Thread Gong Wei

Hi all,

We have a few 3.3 Stable production servers lying around the campus to serve
the university population.  As usual, we need some means to manage/monitor
the server performance closely.

We also have a few Solaris machines around.  We've purchased a SNMP agent
from Empire Technology (www.empiretech.com) which can report various system
performance related parameters, like swap usage, system load, cpu
utilization, number of open file descriptor, number of processes, etc.

The bad news is that their product doesn't support FreeBSD, although it does
support Linux.  So we cannot use this tool to monitor the system
performance.  Instead, we need something else which can do roughly the same
thing.

Among so many parameters our immediate interests is the following:
*   CPU utilization, % used in Kernel space vs % used in user space
*   RAM utilization
*   SWAP utilization
*   Network bandwidth usage
*   number of file descriptors used

As ususal, any hints/comments are more than welcomed.  Please do mail a copy
of your response to me directly.  Thanks!




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Re: 3.3 Stable Performance Monitoring

1999-10-22 Thread Chuck Youse


I'm assuming that you've eliminated the possibility of running this under
Linux emulation mode?

It may be that the snmp agent diddles too closely with kernel structures
to allow for this, but there are emulatable ways to perform each of the
tasks listed..

Chuck


On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Gong Wei wrote:

 Hi all,
 
 We have a few 3.3 Stable production servers lying around the campus to serve
 the university population.  As usual, we need some means to manage/monitor
 the server performance closely.
 
 We also have a few Solaris machines around.  We've purchased a SNMP agent
 from Empire Technology (www.empiretech.com) which can report various system
 performance related parameters, like swap usage, system load, cpu
 utilization, number of open file descriptor, number of processes, etc.
 
 The bad news is that their product doesn't support FreeBSD, although it does
 support Linux.  So we cannot use this tool to monitor the system
 performance.  Instead, we need something else which can do roughly the same
 thing.
 
 Among so many parameters our immediate interests is the following:
 * CPU utilization, % used in Kernel space vs % used in user space
 * RAM utilization
 * SWAP utilization
 * Network bandwidth usage
 * number of file descriptors used
 
 As ususal, any hints/comments are more than welcomed.  Please do mail a copy
 of your response to me directly.  Thanks!
 
 
 
 
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Re: 3.3 Stable Performance Monitoring

1999-10-22 Thread Tom

On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Gong Wei wrote:

 We also have a few Solaris machines around.  We've purchased a SNMP agent
 from Empire Technology (www.empiretech.com) which can report various system
 performance related parameters, like swap usage, system load, cpu
 utilization, number of open file descriptor, number of processes, etc.
 
 The bad news is that their product doesn't support FreeBSD, although it does
 support Linux.  So we cannot use this tool to monitor the system
 performance.  Instead, we need something else which can do roughly the same
 thing.
 
 Among so many parameters our immediate interests is the following:
 * CPU utilization, % used in Kernel space vs % used in user space
 * RAM utilization
 * SWAP utilization
 * Network bandwidth usage
 * number of file descriptors used
 
 As ususal, any hints/comments are more than welcomed.  Please do mail a copy
 of your response to me directly.  Thanks!

  The ucd-snmp package includes a snmp daemon (snmpd).  That last time I
did a snmpwalk on it, it reported lots of stuff like you want.  The funny
part, is that this server probably works on Solaris too, and doesn't cost
anything!

  BTW, I usually get the network bandwidth off the switch the server is
plugged into though.

Tom



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Re: 3.3 Stable Performance Monitoring

1999-10-22 Thread Thomas David Rivers

It turns out one of the principles at Empire Technologies is
a friend of mine.  I'll send him a note regarding a FreeBSD
version and see what comes out of it.

- Dave Rivers -



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