If you are going to try SAR take a look on KSAR project... http://sourceforge.net/projects/ksar/
Regards, Tito On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Barton Robinson <bar...@velocitysoftware.com > wrote: > I just had an installation demonstrate the perfect tool for you. In > looking at what alerts should be set for operations, one of their many > zlinux servers had a swap full condition. They were able to go back thru > reports from last 12 months, took less than a minute to identify when the > swap filled up, and what processes were running in the linux server at that > time. This was with a full web interface, all automated. There were > daily, weekly, monthly reports created for linux, z/vm, network all > automatically and easily accessable thru their web interface. > If you would like to talk more, or maybe talk to some of the hundreds of > installations that run this, that can be arranged. > > > > On 11/8/2014 2:36 PM, Mikael Wargh wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> We have several zLinuxes installed and been happy with the overall >> functionality especially now when we got the new IBM wave tool installed. >> However, Wave didn’t help is with the problem with the Linux level >> reporting we currently have. z/VM performance reporter gives us current >> overall status, but is not very helpful for longer period capacity trending >> at least from single Linux perspective. Our company’s standard Patrol >> agents show somewhat twisted and misleading information about Linux on z >> especially on CPU point of view and this cannot be modified. >> >> So…now I’m trying to find out which Linux tool could be used as a good >> base for this reporting requirement. Nmon seems to be the best candidate so >> far, haven’t tested SAR yet. Currently I get automated nmon reports from >> one of our zLinux servers and they generate nice graphs with nmon_analyzer >> Excel program. However, it’s not very convenient to manually create graphs >> every day on your laptop…especially when we get reports from several >> servers in the future. >> >> On AIX you can use nmon2rrd which uses rrdtool for conversion. Also there >> are some nmon2web scripts for AIX. For Linux you can get several nmon web >> page generators which are often based on rrdtool and you have also couple >> of viable SAR graph generating options. I have tried to find a good >> solution for zLinux but so far haven’t been able to fill this automated web >> page generation gap. >> >> To sum this up: >> - We need a performance reporting tool which can be fully automated via >> Linux scripting or similar for multiple zLinux instances. As there seems to >> be several freeware possibilities, we would prefer them. >> - Currently I have created a routine which creates daily and weekly nmon >> scripts which are then collected to central zLinux reporting server. >> - Those nmon files are useful to our maintenance people, but we need also >> simple graphs to other parties preferably in some picture/html format. >> - Ideal solution would be some simple way to convert those nmon files to >> html pages automatically as nmon2rrd does. >> - One possibility would be to upload those nmon files to some AIX/x64 >> server and do the conversion there, but it would create extra data transfer >> and to be honest would be quite embarrassing from zLinux point of view. >> - Is there any alternative routes to do this or should I try to compile >> some of these AIX/x64 tools to system z Linux? >> - We use Redhat 6.4 and z/VM 6.3 >> >> Best regards, >> Mikael Wargh >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > -- Linux User #387870 .........____ .... _/_õ|__| ..º[ .-.___.-._| . . . . .__( o)__( o).:_______ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
