How to run sar on Sun Solaris? - UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

duke0001 · #1 03-09-2007

I want to get some information about system activity report on UNIX server. I want to use 'sar'. But it seems that report is binary code and can not be read. Please advise how to do it. Thanks.

reborg · #2 03-09-2007

If you want sar recordings, you would usually you put something, like this in the crontab for 'sys'

Then use the sar or sag commands to view the information, you would not deal directly with the files.

Code:

0 * * * 0-6 /usr/lib/sa/sa1
20,40 8-17 * * 1-5 /usr/lib/sa/sa1
5 18 * * 1-5 /usr/lib/sa/sa2 -s 8:00 -e 18:01 -i 1200 -A

If you just want samples

Code:

sar [options] <sample period> <number of samples>

Sample period should be at a minimum 5 seconds, or it can itself affect the results.

duke0001 · #3 03-13-2007

Thanks for your advice.

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