I find sar to be very reliable and convenient. It's not my sole means of gathering data, though; I use Cacti also.
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Mike Gerdts <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Peter Tribble <[email protected]> > wrote: >> in order to get the network stats. I get the feeling that there's an >> opportunity to >> take a broader view here and rip out some of the useless numbers that sar >> collects and add some that would be useful.) > > sar has disappointed me so many times that I rarely use it. In > particular, the times that I most needed to use the data I found that > the file was corrupt and sar with either dump core or spit errors > trying to read it. Are people actually using sar as their primary > means of collecting performance data with good success these days? > > -- > Mike Gerdts > http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ > _______________________________________________ > sysadmin-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss > _______________________________________________ sysadmin-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss
