mpstat and zonestat monitors
list Anna Jonna Armannsdottir
Hi all. Solaris 10 has a virtualization capability which is the ability to create so called zones, that effectively act like independent machines. In The Shire are mpstat and zonestat monitors for monitoring zones on Solaris 10. I would like to know if it is possible to monitor all zones on a server so that a client on each virtual machine is not necessary. I do not like the alternative, which is to install a hobbit client on each virtual machine. PS. Henrik: It is good to know You are in good health. -- Kindest Regards, Anna Jonna Ármannsdóttir, %& A: Because people read from top to bottom. Unix System Aministration, Computing Services, %& Q: Why is top posting bad? University of Iceland.
list Tim McCloskey
You could probably write something simple to do this. Our zones are on a zfs slice so disk space monitoring can look odd. Also, hobbit uses top and other commands that do not always report correct info from within a zone. For example, if you have capped-memory rctl's set top will incorrectly report the data inside a zone. I guess it depends on what you want to monitor. A quick hack up based on prstat may help. Example; foo at global_zone:~ prstat -mvaL -z childzone1 Know this does not help much, but it really is a topic worth discussing. Solaris 10 with ZFS, Zones, FSS and other cool tools is nice platform. Regards, Tim
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Anna Jonna Armannsdottir wrote:Hi all. Solaris 10 has a virtualization capability which is the ability to create so called zones, that effectively act like independent machines. In The Shire are mpstat and zonestat monitors for monitoring zones on Solaris 10. I would like to know if it is possible to monitor all zones on a server so that a client on each virtual machine is not necessary. I do not like the alternative, which is to install a hobbit client on each virtual machine. PS. Henrik: It is good to know You are in good health.
list Vernon Everett
Hi Anna
I am looking at the exact same thing myself.
Maybe we (and anybody else interested) can work on a collaborative monitoring script for monitoring Sol10 Zones.
Interested?
Regards
Vernon
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Subject: [hobbit] mpstat and zonestat monitors
Hi all.
Solaris 10 has a virtualization capability which is the ability to create so called zones, that effectively act like independent machines.
In The Shire are mpstat and zonestat monitors for monitoring zones on Solaris 10. I would like to know if it is possible to monitor all zones on a server so that a client on each virtual machine is not necessary.
I do not like the alternative, which is to install a hobbit client on each virtual machine.
PS. Henrik: It is good to know You are in good health.
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Unix System Aministration, Computing Services, %& Q: Why is top posting bad?
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list Anna Jonna Armannsdottir
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On mán, 2008-10-06 at 10:56 -0700, Tim McCloskey wrote:
You could probably write something simple to do this. Our zones are on a zfs slice so disk space monitoring can look odd. Also, hobbit uses top and other commands that do not always report correct info from within a zone. For example, if you have capped-memory rctl's set top will incorrectly report the data inside a zone.
I probably need to rephrase my questions? :)
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list Mike Rowell
I wrote a zone monitoring script that did just this, it runs on the global zone and uses pfexec to login and gather data on the zone if the -z option for the global zone commands do not exist. There has been an issue with it where commands seem to hang for no reason, havn't had a chance to look at it as yet though.
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Subject: Re: [hobbit] mpstat and zonestat monitors
On mán, 2008-10-06 at 10:56 -0700, Tim McCloskey wrote:You could probably write something simple to do this. Our zones are on a zfs slice so disk space monitoring can look odd. Also, hobbit uses top and other commands that do not always report correct info from within a zone. For example, if you have capped-memory rctl's set top will incorrectly report the data inside a zone.
I probably need to rephrase my questions? :) -- Kindest Regards, Anna Jonna Ármannsdóttir, %& A: Because people read from top to bottom. Unix System Aministration, Computing Services, %& Q: Why is top posting bad? University of Iceland.
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list Anna Jonna Armannsdottir
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On þri, 2008-10-07 at 06:21 +0800, Everett, Vernon wrote:
Hi Anna
I am looking at the exact same thing myself.
Maybe we (and anybody else interested) can work on a collaborative
monitoring script for monitoring Sol10 Zones.
Interested?
Regards
VernonHi Vernon, sorry that I overlooked your reply. I am absolutely interested.
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