----- "Shawn Drew" <shawn.drew AT AMERICAS.BNPPARIBAS DOT COM> wrote:
>
> Looking for some tips on performance monitoring.  I've been through
> the
> tuning guide, but I'm looking for
> monitoring CPU/Memory, HBA usage, disk/tape performance, etc.
>
> I'm wondering what are the favorite tools on this list.   From what I
> can
> gather nmon doesn't collect tape drive data, which is one of my major
> interests.
>
> I need to collect historical data for long term trends.  Does anyone
> know
> if you can keep topas output in single, periodic snapshots like nmon?
>
>
> Regards,
> Shawn
> ________________________________________________
> Shawn Drew
>


FWIW, there are some good plugins for Nagios that do that sort of thing and can 
provide performance data to various graphing addons - or just use Hyperic or 
something similar.