Re: Automated performance reporting on Linux on Z

2014-11-11 Thread Alan Ackerman
Would you be willing to tell us those annoying idosyncrasies? Our shop is very unlikely to move away from Velocity, but newer customers, such as the Original Poster, might find it useful. To successfully grow a zLinux farm, you *need* a commercial performance management solution for z/VM.

Re: Automated performance reporting on Linux on Z

2014-11-11 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 11/11/2014 at 01:44 EST, Alan Ackerman alan.ackerma...@gmail.com wrote: Would you be willing to tell us those annoying idosyncrasies? No. What annoys me may not annoy others, and in no case do the behaviors diminish the value sufficiently to make me get rid of the product. Like a

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
Subject: Re: Automated performance reporting on Linux on Z 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

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
which are available on AIX/Solaris and x86/x64 Linux worlds. -Mikael -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tito Garrido Sent: 9. marraskuuta 2014 23:38 To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Automated performance reporting on Linux

Re: Automated performance reporting on Linux on Z

2014-11-10 Thread Veencamp, Jonathon D.
performance reporting on Linux on Z 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

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

Re: Automated performance reporting on Linux on Z

2014-11-09 Thread Barton Robinson
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

Re: Automated performance reporting on Linux on Z

2014-11-09 Thread Tito Garrido
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

Re: Automated performance reporting on Linux on Z

2014-11-09 Thread Barton Robinson
The problem with these tools is other than the pretty charts, do they help solve the problems? That ability to solve problems comes with experience - difficult to write tools to solve problems if having no experience with those problems. Installations that run Linux on 'Z' have greater

Automated performance reporting on Linux on Z

2014-11-08 Thread Mikael Wargh
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

Re: Automated performance reporting on Linux on Z

2014-11-08 Thread Rick Troth
On 11/08/2014 05:36 PM, Mikael Wargh wrote: - 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