I'm not sure you would find the data produced by this "patch" to really meet your needs. So ask the question is anyone using it? can you show useful data from say 40 systems?
In looking at my many options for data acquisition from Linux, there is really NO comparison to what is provided by NETSNMP. This comes pre-installed with redhat and Suse, is very inexpensive to operate, has no hooks, needs no recompile, optionally does not monitor idle linux servers, and has pretty good support. Oh, and is free. I'd like to repeat that: Low operational cost, no hooks, free agent, lots of very useful data. The only catch would be that as far as I know, ESALPS from Velocity Software is the only solution that really utilizes this open source package. In my many performance presentations, I often show 30-40 linux servers on one vm system - from inside Linux. Thus it is easy to prove that installations actually use this solution, the agents operate at low cost, and you would not be wasting your time doing kernal compiles. If anyone is at WAVV this weekend, I'll show some perfectly useful, production examples of using NETSNMP. >Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 15:16:39 -0500 >Sender: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> >From: James Melin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I found the patch on alphaworks as part of the june 2003 stream. >Instructions seem to indicate a recompile of the kernal from >source. Isnt' that kinda drastic? Any way to tell if that patch >is on SLES8/SP3 as delievered from the vendor? My boss said >'Nyet' to recompiling the kernal - And frankly, it is well >beyond my comfort level. I would think a kernel re-compile would >be for something aggregious that needed fixing yesterday. Not >for a performance monitor hook. > > > > > >There is a Performance Toolkit redbook that has a chapter about >monitoring Linux. It may mention where to get the patch. > >James Melin wrote: >> Getting ready to test z/VM 5.1 and the system guy drops a page on me that >> says: >> >> The LINUX Kernel needs the "Linux-z/VM monitor stream" patch applied. >> >> >> The book SC24-6136-00 z/VMPerformance Toolkit Version 5 Release 1.0 >doesn't >> mention where this patch is available from....Only that I need it. Can >> anyone tell me where I can find this? "If you can't measure it, I'm Just NOT interested!"(tm) /************************************************************/ Barton Robinson - CBW Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Velocity Software, Inc Mailing Address: 196-D Castro Street P.O. Box 390640 Mountain View, CA 94041 Mountain View, CA 94039-0640 VM Performance Hotline: 650-964-8867 Fax: 650-964-9012 Web Page: WWW.VELOCITY-SOFTWARE.COM /************************************************************/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
