Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 19:12:35 +0800 From: Dennis Michael F.Ponseca & <deponz@proteus.8eight8.net.ph> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>, Gong Wei <ccegongw@nus.edu.sg> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 3.3 Stable Performance Monitoring Message-ID: <99102319141100.27206@proteus.8eight8.net.ph> References: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9910222209180.13788-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
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*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Tom wrote: Another way to the monitor system performance in conjunction to snmp is try to use the MRTG package, in the contrib directory u can find a lot of useful and working plugins that will monitor system performance. > *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* > 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-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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