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list Kevin Hanrahan · Sat, 30 Apr 2005 11:32:05 -0400 ·
Hi all,
 Does anyone know how to get the info (and graphs hopefully) on CPU
utilization for unix machines? Currently, we see CPU load which is
different, and I believe a true measure of how hard the box is working
but I have people who feel the need to also see cpu utilization....any
ideas?

Thanks

kevin
list Henrik Størner · Sat, 30 Apr 2005 17:41:48 +0200 ·
quoted from Kevin Hanrahan
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 11:32:05AM -0400, kevin hanrahan wrote:
 Does anyone know how to get the info (and graphs hopefully) on CPU
utilization for unix machines? Currently, we see CPU load which is
different, and I believe a true measure of how hard the box is working
but I have people who feel the need to also see cpu utilization....any
ideas?
How about enabling the vmstat module in the LARRD client ? That gives
you cpu utilization split into system-time, user-time and idle-time as
percentages. Just tell them that the green part is unused, and the
red/yellow parts are when it is busy.


Henrik
list John Turner · Sat, 30 Apr 2005 15:19:40 -0400 ·
quoted from Henrik Størner
On Apr 30, 2005, at 11:41 AM, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 11:32:05AM -0400, kevin hanrahan wrote:
 Does anyone know how to get the info (and graphs hopefully) on CPU
utilization for unix machines? Currently, we see CPU load which is
different, and I believe a true measure of how hard the box is working
but I have people who feel the need to also see cpu utilization....any
ideas?
How about enabling the vmstat module in the LARRD client ? That gives
you cpu utilization split into system-time, user-time and idle-time as
percentages. Just tell them that the green part is unused, and the
red/yellow parts are when it is busy.


Henrik
We use the bb-sar extension from www.deadcat.net on many of our hosts. 
I haven't tried to get it working with Hobbit yet, but it does CPU 
utilization in percentages.

John
list Uwe Kirbach · Sun, 01 May 2005 21:27:01 +0200 ·
Am Samstag, den 30.04.2005, 15:19 -0400 schrieb John Turner:
quoted from John Turner
On Apr 30, 2005, at 11:41 AM, Henrik Stoerner wrote:

We use the bb-sar extension from www.deadcat.net on many of our hosts. 
I haven't tried to get it working with Hobbit yet, but it does CPU 
utilization in percentages.

John
Hello John,

how did you got bb-sar running ?
I tried it, but the sar-page of a host had only dead links.

Do you hae a little howto or a tip ?

Would be interested to get it running inside hobbit.
If you want too, we could try it together.

Uwe Kirbach
list John Turner · Sun, 1 May 2005 17:03:56 -0400 ·
quoted from Uwe Kirbach
On May 1, 2005, at 3:27 PM, Uwe Kirbach wrote:
Am Samstag, den 30.04.2005, 15:19 -0400 schrieb John Turner:
On Apr 30, 2005, at 11:41 AM, Henrik Stoerner wrote:

We use the bb-sar extension from www.deadcat.net on many of our hosts.
I haven't tried to get it working with Hobbit yet, but it does CPU
utilization in percentages.

John
Hello John,

how did you got bb-sar running ?
I tried it, but the sar-page of a host had only dead links.

No I had the same issue when I first tried it. I have not fixed it yet. 
I did get the links to work but the graphs don't show up so it doesn't 
really help much. I hope to get a chance to look at it some this week.

John