On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:12:13 -0800 Z W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I have 2 unix boxes. > In each box, I have a unix shell script that captures vmstat > statistics to a file of the unix box. During the run of the 2 shell > scripts, I need a common timestamp for both. > I'm thinking of writing an app to issue commands on a Windows box > every few mins to > these shell scripts and capture the statistics back to a file in a > Windows folder. The app will provide the common timestamp for the > statistics retrieved from the unix boxes. > After the run is complete, I need to process these 2 files and graph > them on a web browser. The output files should look similar to this: > > 12:34:25 200000, 3, 99.0 > > 12:34:25 400000, 6, 90.0 > > where 12:34:25 is the common timestamp when issuing the vmstat, > 200000 (or 400000) represents free memory, 3 (or 6) represents page > mf and 99.0 (or 90.0) represents cpu idle. > > I like to hear from you all what's the best method to accomplish this. > > Can DTrace do better than that ? > Even better, if one could provide a simple sample to accomplish this.
If you have both hosts synchronized with ntp that would be much, much better than depending on writing your own application. ntp is a published Standard. What are you really trying to look at with vmstat? James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog _______________________________________________ dtrace-discuss mailing list [email protected]
