[TriLUG] Utility to record process statistic

[David Reid]

Look at the sysstat package of performance monitoring tools.

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/sebastien.godard/
http://www.howtoforge.com/sysstat_monitoring_centos

-David


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> Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 11:41:45 -0400
> From: "Blackburn, Marvin" <mblackburn at glenraven.com>
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> We run some agentless monitoring tools.  One of the consequences is that
> we occasionally have situations where we lose connectivity to the server
> being monitored.
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> For example, sometimes when  cpu gets overburdened, the connection
> attempt fails.  This results in loss of information such as processes
> that were running at the time of the incident.
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> I was looking for a tool that runs locally that could record and store
> process related information periodically.  I know I can write some
> scripts to do this, but was hoping to find something that would be
> efficient and have some features that I would not have time to script.
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> Does anyone have an suggestions?
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> Currently we run RHEL 4.x and 5.x