Re: Automated performance reporting on Linux on Z

2014-11-10 Thread Tracy Dean
The IBM OMEGAMON XE on z/VM and Linux tool collects performance metrics and allows customers to store them in a data warehouse (included). Customers choose what to keep and they summarize and prune the data based on the reporting they would like to consider. Another included feature of any

Re: Automated performance reporting on Linux on Z

2014-11-10 Thread Andrew Porter
I've had customers for the product I work on complain of performance issues and a number of times when the Linux server was examined the source of the problem was a commercial monitoring agent that had been in a run loop for weeks. A Java process so not quite as light-weight as you would expect

Re: Automated performance reporting on Linux on Z

2014-11-10 Thread Bill Bitner
The IBM OMEGAMON XE on z/VM and Linux tool collects performance metrics and allows customers to store them in a data warehouse (included). Customers choose what to keep and they summarize and prune the data based on the reporting they would like to consider. Another included feature of any

Re: Automated performance reporting on Linux on Z

2014-11-10 Thread Mikael Wargh
Thanks! This was very valuable information. I know that there are several commercial products for this purpose, but currently our calculations wont give us much more room to add additional licence expenses to this environment. Velocity software and IBM Tivoli tools are most probably the best

Final Snapshot of SRU.EDU FTP Site added to vmworkshop.org

2014-11-10 Thread David Boyes
With Fran Hensler's permission, I've added a final snapshot of the zvm.sru.edu FTP site that Fran's maintained over the years to vmworkshop.org. The files are available by anonymous FTP from vmworkshop.org, directory 'sru'. Best wishes on your retirement, Fran. Somewhere, there will always be a

Re: sles 12

2014-11-10 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
Alan, Did this issue get resolved? We have a z196 on one account. Ann Smith -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 10:47 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: sles 12 On 10/30/2014 at

Re: Automated performance reporting on Linux on Z

2014-11-10 Thread Veencamp, Jonathon D.
Mikael, I also had to make a homemade monitor rather than spending money to get a real product, which I would have preferred. In our experience, sar and the like are critically missing hypervisor stats that absolutely matter. My duct tape and bailing wire solution was to configure one of

Re: Automated performance reporting on Linux on Z

2014-11-10 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 11/10/2014 at 04:40 EST, Veencamp, Jonathon D. jdveenc...@fedins.com wrote: - vmcp ind command. I gather AVGPROC for IFL hardware utilization. And also XSTORE and PAGING info. - I also iteratively issue 'vmcp ind linuxguestname' for each of our Linii, so we can display how much