From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 23 3:58:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from proteus.8eight8.net.ph (proteus.8eight8.net.ph [202.78.92.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA2A214D17; Sat, 23 Oct 1999 03:58:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from deponz@proteus.8eight8.net.ph) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (HELO proteus.8eight8.net.ph) by proteus.8eight8.net.ph (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.1b6) with SMTP id 680010; Sat, 23 Oct 1999 19:14:11 +0800 From: Dennis Michael F.Ponseca & Reply-To: deponz@proteus.8eight8.net.ph To: Tom , Gong Wei Subject: Re: 3.3 Stable Performance Monitoring Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 19:12:35 +0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.17] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" , "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99102319141100.27206@proteus.8eight8.net.ph> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-KMail-Mark: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG *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