From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 11 10:19:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dpbox.dhs.org (dsl-216-227-100-85.telocity.com [216.227.100.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0918837B43B for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 10:18:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from vector.usa.net ([192.168.0.50]) by dpbox.dhs.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g0BHXNe03582; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 11:33:23 -0600 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020111122359.038be4e8@pop.netaddress.com> X-Sender: dpuryear@pop.netaddress.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 12:27:57 -0600 To: Dan Nelson , Wilko Bulte From: Dustin Puryear Subject: Re: sar on FreeBSD Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020111164840.GI26342@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020111171654.A29484@freebie.xs4all.nl> <5.1.0.14.0.20020110200054.033683f0@pop.netaddress.com> <20020111171654.A29484@freebie.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:48 AM 1/11/2002 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: >In the last episode (Jan 11), Wilko Bulte said: > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 08:03:36PM -0600, Dustin Puryear wrote: > > > tool available that doesn't require SNMP. Does anyone know of > > > anything for FreeBSD that is sar-like? If a sar-like tool isn't > > > available, I may just begin writing > >Sar and SNMP provide completely different services. Sar gives you >historical reports, where SNMP is a network service that gives you only >the current value of a stat. Apparently, I wasn't being very clear. I referred to SNMP because it provides a way to collect performance data. By using a tool such as MRTG you can then provide historical performance data, much in the same way as sar. I had left that tidbit as being implied, rather than explicitly stating it. >and sadc. If you don't mind the GPL, the Linux systat package includes >an implementation of sar. In 1999, SCO promised to release their >source under MPL, but never did. Fortunately, I was provided with a link to a tool named bsdsar, which seems to provide sar capabilities. I haven't done any testing yet, but bsdsar looks promising. Anyone else interested may want to take a look. Regards, Dustin --- Dustin Puryear Information Systems Consultant http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear In the beginning the Universe was created. This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message