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Old 03-09-2007
How to run sar on Sun Solaris?
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.
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Old 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.
Last edited by reborg; 03-11-2007 at 05:39 PM..
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Old 03-13-2007
Thanks for your advice.
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