Hi all ,
I apologize for the late summary , things are kinda crazy around here.
Thank you to all who responded (Far too many for one mail message, and I
didn't want to forget anyone).
The obvious answer is to use the ugly and encryptic iostat, vmstat and
sar. Although to us tech-heads these make perfect sense, I needed
something that manager types would be able to analyze, without having to
jump through hoops (Gnu-plot or excell spreadsheets).
The overwhelming responses were for 3 different things that would
accomplish this.
1) SymbEL (by Adrian Cockroft). This is a scripting language that allows
you to easily access information from the kernel. There are sample
scripts available to get you started. It is available free at
http://sunsolve.sun.com
2) Running sar and using sarcheck to pretty up the output. The cost of
SAR is 199.00 per OS (You need a different sarcheck for 2.5.x 2.6 and
2.7) (See http://www.sarcheck.com)
3) This is the one we decided to use for now. MRTG along with the snmp
daemon. It seems to work pretty good. MRTG also monitors network
performance , and outputs in a decent line graph. And the best part, is
that it is free (and simple to implement).
Other mentions were sysmon and proctool.
Thank you again for the help.
-- Daren L. Eason Sr. Systems Administrator Evergreen Internet, Inc (480) 926-4500 x. 211 http://www.evergreen.com
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