Re: AIX question (off topic possibly)

>From http://bb4.com/ select 'support' (http://bb4.com/support.html) and then
'Enhancements and Plugins' (http://www.deadcat.net/) then search on 'larrd'.
Here's the short-form writeup:

Create graphs of the information that BB collects so that you can see the
trend of disk space usage or CPU utilisation etc etc. NB: this package
requires Tobi Oetiker RRDTOOL
http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/, perl and the rrd perl
module. Check larrd.packetpushers.com or BB Community Doco for more
information. This is an update to larrd-0.42 (backwards compatible).
OS: UNIX Other

I think it took me about three days to get everything tied together once I
got started. I get 4 graphs (last 48 hours, last 12 days, last 48 days, and
last 576 days) for cpu load, tcp/ip connection times, cpu utilization
(system, user, wait, and idle states) and system call activity. The 576 day
chart shows my SAP DB server has gone from roughly 10% system state to 17%
system state over the last 18 months as workload has picked up; the 48-hour
chart shows me that my TSM backup (gotta get back on topic somehow :-) runs
for 2.5 hours at 50% system, 25% user and 15% wait (on a 4-way 660-6M1 -
ouch!).

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

-----Original Message-----
From: goran [mailto:goran.k AT VIP DOT HR]
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 9:23 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: AIX question (off topic possibly)

what is larrd and where to get it ?

thanks

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Kauffman" <KauffmanT AT NIBCO DOT COM>
To: <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: AIX question (off topic possibly)


> Big Brother with the larrd add-in works nicely.
>
> See http://bb4.com/
>
> Or contact me directly . . .
>
> Tom Kauffman
> NIBCO, Inc
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:GEOFFREY.L.GILL AT SAIC DOT COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 3:30 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: AIX question (off topic possibly)
>
> Hi all,
>
> This may be a little off topic as it relates to TSM specifically but I do
> have a reason for asking. I'd like to see how the TSM server is running
> during different periods of processing. With that said......
>
>
>
> I was wondering if anyone has a favorite GUI tool that can be run locally
or
> remotely, on an AIX computer running 5.1 or 5.2, that can show the health
or
> usage of the computer resources. Tools like topas are nice but I would
like
> to see a graphical interpretation of these types of things if possible.
>
>
>
> It would be nice if it was a "free" tool, but it does not have to be.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Geoff Gill
> TSM Administrator
> NT Systems Support Engineer
> SAIC
> E-Mail:   gillg AT saic DOT com
> Phone:  (858) 826-4062
> Pager:   (877) 854-0975
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