09-10-2014
Hi Peasant,
While sar is a usefull tool, it does have some limitations - I suggested the more user friendly tools in preference to sar due to the more specific nature of the original request.
All the requirements are already available as standard from Xymon (they are also available in many other tools), so rather than present the requestor a part solution I plumped for the whole package.
A combination of several standard unix utilities will give the desired output, but that is the point it's a combination. All the above data could be gleaned from judicious use of "top", "ps", "uptime" and some other utilities - but as per the users request it would have to be run with out the aid of cron - so a manual process. Using something like Xymon removes the cron requirement, if sar is set up then it also fair to say that there is no need for the user to have access to cron - but the information is more difficult to access and it falls down on the top three process request.
Regards
Dave
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sysinfo - return system information
SYNOPSIS
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DESCRIPTION
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unsigned long freehigh; /* Available high memory size */
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char _f[20-2*sizeof(long)-sizeof(int)];
/* Padding to 64 bytes */
};
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RETURN VALUE
On success, sysinfo() returns zero. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the cause of the error.
ERRORS
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VERSIONS
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CONFORMING TO
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NOTES
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