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Re: CPU and Disk Utilisation

1999-08-13 11:49:16
Subject: Re: CPU and Disk Utilisation
From: Steve Francis <steve.francis AT COMMSERV.UCSB DOT EDU>
To: nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 08:49:16 -0700
The Sun snmp agent is lame.  A very minimal snmp mib supported.  It does not
directly tell you things like CPU utilization (but you could derive it from the
process table it does support) or, as I recall, disk utilization. (Depending on
what you mean by that: KB of I/O per second per disk?  % used of a file
system?)  I think the sun agent does suppoort the former, but not the latter.

My recommendation is to get a better agent.  FOr Solaris, I like the the Empire
technologies agent, or the IBM SIA.  Or there are the tivoli agents, which I
haven't used on SOlaris.  All these solutions support what you want, very
simply (with one MIB value to poll) and much, much more.

If you dont want to buy new agents, you can write some cron scripts running on
the target system to achieve the same thing, but that depends on how much time
you hjave to invest in this project.

pmenon wrote:

> Hi,
>     I need to finally plot CPU and Disk Utilization, My agents are Solaris
> Agents (SUN snmp agents, running on Solaris 2.6), and my management station
> being Netview 5.x on an AIX 4.2 box. Is there a way I can achieve this
> without having need to look out for some third party agents.
>
>     Any help on this will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Deep

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