System monitering

Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 11:27:28 -0400
From: Landon Boyd <landon@chebucto.ns.ca>
To: CSuite Tech Reports <csuite-tech@chebucto.ns.ca>
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On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, James Fifield wrote:

> Does anyone know if it would be possible for CSuite to moniter the system 
> load average?  Would it be a useful function for CSuite to see that once 
> the load clears, say 500 or so, to begin a series of monitering and 
> recording proceedures so that the sys admins could try to track what went 
> wrong if it's not obvious?'
> 
> Just a thought.

We do have the beginnings of this functionality in beta 1.0.  The scripts
which accomplish this are cronbin/perfmon, which is run whenever
csuite-cron is run and cronbin/perfstats which is run nightly.

Here is the load average report from csuite which was sent to root (me)
last night: 


>From root@csuite.chebucto.ns.ca
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 23:55:01 -0400
From: CSuite Super User <root@csuite.chebucto.ns.ca>
To: unlisted-recipients:  ;
Subject: csuite: load statistics

System Load Average
        1.6 ++-----------+------------+-----------+------------+-----------++
            +            +            +           +          *****     *    +
        1.4 ++                                   *****    Load Average*****++
            |                                   *    *      **              |
        1.2 ++                                  *    *    **               ++
          1 ++                                  *    *    *                ++
            |                                   *    *    *                 |
        0.8 ++                                  *    *    *                ++
            |                                   *    *  * *                 |
        0.6 ++                                  *    * ** *                ++
        0.4 ++                          *       *    * ** *                ++
            |                          **       *    ** * *                 |
        0.2 ++             ***       ****    *  *    *  * *                ++
            +            + *  *    ** * ********  +     * *    +            +
          0 ****************--******--+----*-*----+-----***----+-----------++
            0            5           10          15           20           25
                                       Time of Day


As it stands, it just produces a pretty graph, but there is plenty of room
for expansion on this idea.


Landon

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