From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 22 22:13:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uniserve.com (mail2.uniserve.com [204.244.156.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64C1D1504A; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 22:12:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca ([204.244.186.218]) by mail2.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 3.03 #4) id 11etTU-000C5w-00; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 22:12:16 -0700 Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 22:12:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Gong Wei Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" , "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: 3.3 Stable Performance Monitoring In-Reply-To: <762388C091FAD01180FF00A02462137801AC5BFD@exchange.nus.edu.sg> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Gong Wei wrote: > We also have a few Solaris machines around. We've purchased a SNMP agent > from Empire Technology (www.empiretech.com) which can report various system > performance related parameters, like swap usage, system load, cpu > utilization, number of open file descriptor, number of processes, etc. > > The bad news is that their product doesn't support FreeBSD, although it does > support Linux. So we cannot use this tool to monitor the system > performance. Instead, we need something else which can do roughly the same > thing. > > Among so many parameters our immediate interests is the following: > * CPU utilization, % used in Kernel space vs % used in user space > * RAM utilization > * SWAP utilization > * Network bandwidth usage > * number of file descriptors used > > As ususal, any hints/comments are more than welcomed. Please do mail a copy > of your response to me directly. Thanks! The ucd-snmp package includes a snmp daemon (snmpd). That last time I did a snmpwalk on it, it reported lots of stuff like you want. The funny part, is that this server probably works on Solaris too, and doesn't cost anything! BTW, I usually get the network bandwidth off the switch the server is plugged into though. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message