Re: [sysadmin-discuss] 64 bit counters for snmp

2010-07-16 Thread Jason King
I'm not sure why you think you need a 64 bit counter -- it should rollover, and most packages should handle that... I think the net-snmp package bundled is a bit out of date, so that could be part of it... On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:08 AM, melbogia wrote: > I originally posted this in opensolari

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Is this thread dead?

2010-03-05 Thread Jason King
Sure it's not pining for the fjords? On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 17:52 +, Peter Tribble wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Ron Halstead wrote: >> > Nothing since Feb 15 (excluding this post). >> >> Context? A one-line message to a ma

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] question on /etc/passwd

2009-12-15 Thread Jason King
Assigned roles are managed in /etc/user_attr On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Tian He wrote: > I know I should probably configure LDAP or NIS instead of copying /etc/passwd > around. But before jumping into that, here is the weird thing that I wish > somebody could explain: > > I replaced the c

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Naming Services

2009-11-19 Thread Jason King
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:24 AM, James Andrewartha wrote: > Peter Tribble wrote: >> >> I found Ben's poll interesting: >> >> http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=1094 >> >> although I would have to step back a pace and ask - "What >> Naming Service"? Because it's not entirely obvious

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Naming Services

2009-11-17 Thread Jason King
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Peter Tribble wrote: > I found Ben's poll interesting: > > http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=1094 > > although I would have to step back a pace and ask - "What > Naming Service"? Because it's not entirely obvious to me > that a directory server is a

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Core Contributor renewals

2009-08-31 Thread Jason King
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Mike Gerdts wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Peter Tribble wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Rainer Heilke >> wrote: >>>> I nominate Jason King as a core contributor for his >>>> demonstrated >>>>

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Administration - commands or files?

2009-03-27 Thread Jason King
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Ben Rockwood wrote: > Peter Tribble wrote: >> So, a question for the weekend: >> >> When administering something, do you prefer to issue a bunch of commands >> to set configuration parameters, or edit a configuration file that the >> thing can read? >> >> (Where ed

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] [perf-discuss] Opensource tools for storing historic performance data (beyond sar)

2009-02-20 Thread Jason King
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Peter Tribble wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:22 AM, adrian cockcroft > wrote: >> >> Don't write yet another performance stats collector / plotter, its been done >> to death. > > It may have been done to death; has it been done properly? > > I've been playing wi

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris - proposal

2009-02-13 Thread Jason King
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Dan Price wrote: > On Fri 13 Feb 2009 at 03:32PM, Jason King wrote: >> >> I would like the think that, all the (summarized) 'never use any >> kstats -- those are private' emails I'm getting off list, as well as >> past rea

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris - proposal

2009-02-13 Thread Jason King
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Dan Price wrote: > On Fri 13 Feb 2009 at 04:28PM, Jason King wrote: >> getting it working), me and Steven Stallion were told it will _never_ >> be putback into any Opensolaris consolidation, even if it were perfect >> in every possible way (

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris - proposal

2009-02-13 Thread Jason King
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Dan Price wrote: > On Fri 13 Feb 2009 at 03:32PM, Jason King wrote: >> >> I would like the think that, all the (summarized) 'never use any >> kstats -- those are private' emails I'm getting off list, as well as >> past rea

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris - proposal

2009-02-13 Thread Jason King
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Richard Lowe wrote: > Jason King writes: > >> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems >> wrote: >>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 08:09:52PM +, Peter Tribble wrote: >>>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris - proposal

2009-02-13 Thread Jason King
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 08:09:52PM +, Peter Tribble wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems >> wrote: >> > >> > No. Stop. Do not assume any data is better than no data. Wrong or

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris - proposal

2009-02-12 Thread Jason King
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Rainer Heilke wrote: >> Perhaps I didn't look close enough, but all of those >> require yet >> another agent be installed on the system, as well as >> a rather large >> amount of agent configuration to get it to where it >> can actually get >> anything more than th

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris - proposal

2009-02-12 Thread Jason King
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 05:32:37PM -0600, Jason King wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems >> wrote: > [..] >> >> However if that's all that's

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] [perf-discuss] Project Proposal: Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris

2009-02-12 Thread Jason King
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Peter Tribble wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Jason King wrote: >> >>> See if this sounds good: >>> >>> Project Leaders: Jason King (if anyone else would like to join up, I'd >>> be happy to add) >

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris - proposal

2009-02-12 Thread Jason King
worse (one in particular would force itself to always run in the RT scheduling class!). Don't underestimate the amount of administrative overhead that can generate. SMA is supposedly the snmp solution for Opensolaris, let's stop treating it like a third-class citizen. > > Adrian >

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris - proposal

2009-02-11 Thread Jason King
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:56:10PM -0600, Jason King wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems >> wrote: >> > G'Day Folks, >> > >> >

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris - proposal

2009-02-10 Thread Jason King
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems wrote: > G'Day Folks, > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 08:03:17PM +, Peter Tribble wrote: > [...] >> Create a net-snmp module that exposes well known Solaris performance >> metrics via SNMP. If possible, this will include presentin

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris - proposal

2009-02-10 Thread Jason King
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Dale Ghent wrote: > On Feb 10, 2009, at 11:22 PM, Jason King wrote: > > > Quite reasonable. This is a great idea, Jason. I just love telemetry and > this is a great idea. > > One thing to note, there's a RFE and (maybe? I think?) an ass

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris - proposal

2009-02-10 Thread Jason King
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Dale Ghent wrote: > On Feb 10, 2009, at 3:03 PM, Peter Tribble wrote: > >> >> Create a net-snmp module that exposes well known Solaris performance >> metrics via SNMP. If possible, this will include presenting kstat >> metrics in a generic fashion via SNMP. > > +

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris - proposal

2009-02-10 Thread Jason King
t) > > Sponsoring Communities: > > Systems Administration Community Group > > Project Leaders: > > Jason King (jbk) > > Description: > > Create a net-snmp module that exposes well known Solaris performance > metrics via SNMP. If possible, this will include pre

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] [perf-discuss] Project Proposal: Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris

2009-02-10 Thread Jason King
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Jason King wrote: > On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Peter Tribble wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Octave Orgeron >> wrote: >>> I think this would make a great project as monitoring for Solaris has >>> pretty much be

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] [perf-discuss] Project Proposal: Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris

2009-02-09 Thread Jason King
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Ben Rockwood wrote: > Octave Orgeron wrote: >> What I meant what the such things have been left to 3rd party tools and >> products by Sun. That should change. Monitoring and administrative tools are >> essential and should be robust out of the box. >> > > I know w

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] [perf-discuss] Project Proposal: Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris

2009-02-09 Thread Jason King
.com/ > See if this sounds good: Project Leaders: Jason King (if anyone else would like to join up, I'd be happy to add) Sponsoring Communities: sysadmin (that seems to be where all the responses are) Description: Create a net-snmp module that exposes well known Solaris performance metrics vi

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] [perf-discuss] Project Proposal: Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris

2009-02-07 Thread Jason King
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Peter Tribble wrote: > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Ben Rockwood wrote: >> Jason King wrote: >>> Doing some more digging, it appears that the number of performance >>> metrics that can be viewed via SNMP on OpenSolaris is minimal. I

[sysadmin-discuss] Project Proposal: Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris

2009-02-06 Thread Jason King
Doing some more digging, it appears that the number of performance metrics that can be viewed via SNMP on OpenSolaris is minimal. I am proposing a project that will enhance the number of metrics available via SNMP. Since SNMP is fairly widespread, it allows one to avoid the whole collector/record

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] [perf-discuss] Opensource tools for storing historic performance data (beyond sar)

2009-02-05 Thread Jason King
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:22 AM, adrian cockcroft wrote: > Orca is at http://www.orcaware.com > > collectors for most operating systems, saves into daily log files that are > easy to process with spreadsheets or use the orca system to turn them all > into a web site full of customizable rrdtool plo

[sysadmin-discuss] Opensource tools for storing historic performance data (beyond sar)

2009-02-03 Thread Jason King
I'm curious if anyone has experiences with tools that will all you to store (and later view) historic performance data. Right now sar seems to be it. I was thinking about throwing together some scripts using kstat + rrdtool, but wanted to see if anyone's found anything better, or if this might be

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Kernel heap size growth

2008-12-24 Thread Jason King
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:18 AM, sameer nirmal wrote: > Hi, > > We are dealing with an issue on SunOS 5.10 (118833-36) running Symantec > storage foundation 4.1 MP1 where the kernel heap size increases gradually and > we have had reboots to tackle the issue. This problem also exists on SF > 4.1