Monday, February 8, 2016

SARMON: nmon for Solaris

nmon (short hand for Nigel's Monitor) is a computer performance system monitor tool for the AIX and Linux operating systems developed by IBM employee Nigel Griffiths.
SARMON is for Solaris machine with the functionality of nmon.
The installation is very ease
1. Get the .zip file form Sarmon Download Link
2. Save on /var/tmp
3. Unzip the .zip
# unzip sarmon_v1.01.bin_sparc.zip
4. Make backup of original files
# cp /usr/bin/sar /usr/bin/sar.orig
# cp /usr/bin/timex /usr/bin/timex.orig
# cp /usr/lib/sa/sadc /usr/lib/sa/sadc.orig
5. Move the sarmon to /usr/local
# mv /var/tmp/sarmon_v1.01.bin_sparc /usr/local/sarmon
6. Copy files
# cp /usr/local/sarmon/sar /usr/bin/sar
# cp /usr/local/sarmon/timex /usr/bin/timex
# cp /usr/local/sarmon/sadc /usr/lib/sa/sadc
7. Edit the crontab and put the entry for collect
0 0 * * * /usr/local/sarmon/sa1 300 288 &
This start collect every day at 00:00
The files generated are in /var/adm/sa/ (day-by-day)

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