CAPTURING MID-RANGE SYSTEMS DATA USING NATIVE COMMANDS

摘要

Our company was paying large licensing fees for third-party products for gathering systems data for capacity planning and performance management. The focus of our effort was to save cost and at the same time obtain data for more mid-range systems (Unix, Linux, and Windows servers). We wrote scripts to gather our own data using native commands. This paper compares the various native commands and metrics capturing data in AlX, Solaris, HP-UX, and Linux, and presents an overview of the capture methodology. It also presents a high-level overview of how the data is used. Windows data is captured in a similar manner, but is not covered in this paper.