Re: [Networker] No of Session server is actively busy with

If I understand correctly, you need a count of the number of active sessions
without using nsradmin. How about something like this (assuming a Unix-based
server):

$ ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep -c 'nsrexec -c'

Good luck,

Conrad Macina
Pfizer, Inc.



On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:29:18 -0400, Stan Horwitz <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote:

>On Jul 27, 2005, at 7:01 AM, Riaan Louwrens wrote:
>
>> Hi again,
>>
>> Thanks for the reply, but,
>>
>> The problem is that the daemon.log is not very helpful in this case (I
>> have looked at it).
>>
>> It lists the actual savesets it is busy with - which is what you
>> get if
>> you do a nsradmin query with the "session" resource (I am looking
>> for a
>> "number").
>>
>> Same problem as a nsradmin query - it as well doesn't list them only
>> once (2 minutes later it lists whatever it is busy with at that moment
>> again) - which could be the same savesets (and we are talking a lot of
>> them) - which makes trying to count them manually, impossible. (This
>> would all be fine if it was a number) ..
>>
>> We are trying to prove (hopefully faultfind) that Legato is falling
>> over
>> - which is very difficult to do if your server stats show that the
>> server isn't actually working hard (lots of swap, lots of available
>> cpu
>> etc).
>
>What's the condition of your NetWorker server's network connectivity
>during these slow periods?
>I have seen NSR slow down to a crawl for backups over a firewall. The
>problem was resolved by
>a combination of settings on the clients, the NSR server, and the
>firewall. What symptoms are
>you seeing that makes you think a performance issue is involved?
>
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