Re: [OCLUG-Tech] oswatcher alternative, collector of top/ps/iostat/vmstat/... info

2013-07-15 Thread Martin Hicks
I'll toss in PCP -- Performance Co-Pilot http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/ It does statistics collection via a logging daemon and has analysis tools for after-the-fact investigation or graphing. It has a plug-in architecture to allow you to observe statistics from just about anything, but does su

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] oswatcher alternative, collector of top/ps/iostat/vmstat/... info

2013-07-15 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 02:29:54PM -0400, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 10:46:10AM -0400, Peter Sjöberg wrote: > > On 07/13/2013 10:55 PM, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > > > > > > I'm curious why nagios/munin are overkill. I think they exactly match > > > your requirements. >

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] oswatcher alternative, collector of top/ps/iostat/vmstat/... info

2013-07-15 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 10:46:10AM -0400, Peter Sjöberg wrote: > On 07/13/2013 10:55 PM, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > > > > I'm curious why nagios/munin are overkill. I think they exactly match > > your requirements. > My requirement is not monitoring - that is managed in a different way. > My pro

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] oswatcher alternative, collector of top/ps/iostat/vmstat/... info

2013-07-14 Thread Peter Sjöberg
On 07/13/2013 10:55 PM, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > > I'm curious why nagios/munin are overkill. I think they exactly match > your requirements. My requirement is not monitoring - that is managed in a different way. My problem is that something happened and I need to find out what and why. While na

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] oswatcher alternative, collector of top/ps/iostat/vmstat/... info

2013-07-14 Thread Brenda J. Butler
I'm curious why nagios/munin are overkill. I think they exactly match your requirements. Scheduling the tests and keeping track of the result in a scalable way can be a bit complicated - the actual tests are basically plugins. nagios and munin come with a few built-in tests (basically, the ones

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] oswatcher alternative, collector of top/ps/iostat/vmstat/... info

2013-07-13 Thread Richard Guy Briggs
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:28:59AM -0400, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > I don't know oswatcher, but based on your description the following > would be usefule for you: > > munin (keeps a contstant sized database, which thins out as you look back > in time). > > nagios > > In both cases, if there is

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] oswatcher alternative, collector of top/ps/iostat/vmstat/... info

2013-07-13 Thread Brenda J. Butler
I don't know oswatcher, but based on your description the following would be usefule for you: munin (keeps a contstant sized database, which thins out as you look back in time). nagios In both cases, if there is some test they don't already do, you can write your own and have them use it. bj

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] oswatcher alternative, collector of top/ps/iostat/vmstat/... info

2013-07-12 Thread Peter Sjöberg
On 07/12/2013 10:28 AM, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > > > I don't know oswatcher, but based on your description the following > would be usefule for you: > > > munin (keeps a contstant sized database, which thins out as you look back > in time). 10sec look and it looks like overkill but I will look

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] oswatcher alternative, collector of top/ps/iostat/vmstat/... info

2013-07-12 Thread Jeffrey Moncrieff
You can also try zenoss.  Jeffrey Dean Moncrieff jeffrey.moncri...@yahoo.ca From: OddSox To: peters-oc...@techwiz.ca Cc: Ottawa Linux Users Group Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 1:29:12 PM Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] oswatcher alternative, collector of top/ps

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] oswatcher alternative, collector of top/ps/iostat/vmstat/... info

2013-07-12 Thread OddSox
Not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for but - http://www.nagios.org/ ? On Jul 12, 2013, at 9:56 AM, Peter Sjöberg wrote: > Just wonder if it's something already out there that does something > similar to what oracles oswatcher does ? ___ Lin

[OCLUG-Tech] oswatcher alternative, collector of top/ps/iostat/vmstat/... info

2013-07-12 Thread Peter Sjöberg
Just wonder if it's something already out there that does something similar to what oracles oswatcher does ? What I'm looking for is some tool to use when analyzing server issues and while oswatcher could be good it's questionable license and I don't run oracle at all on most of the servers I need