UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

In my project we have 3 Solaris 10 servers which need to be monitored for various parameters shown under "prstat -a" command. A shell script runs every 15 mins and captures prstat output by writing it in a log file. I manually download the log file at the end of the day and build graphical charts showing CPU utilization, memory, number of processes running etc. in MS Excel. As you can see, this is a lot of manual work to be done for all three servers.

I was wondering if there is any free "small light weight program" that can be run on Unix environment which would show these parameters in graphical form? On Windows we have task manager that does similar work. I do know how to run X-windows so if the program uses X-windows I might be able to run it.

Thanks.

sun has the software "SunMC" which is a monitoring software to look after the hardware and systemfunctions of you server. the software can be donloaded for free from the sun homepage...

https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP...-F@CDS-CDS_SMI

but notice, this is not a small tool!

Did not knew this. Nice.
Yeh. too big a program which would crash my system if enable :-)
Anything lighter?

I recommend xymon, previous hobbit, previous bigbrother

her is a demo site with infos/download links

yellow : Xymon - Status @ Thu Jan 29 15:53:20 2009

platform independent

I will try this on dev first. Thanks to both.

Halcyon's release of "Neuron Agent 3.0" is a lightweight stand-alone agent which takes between 5-10 min to install and you can start monitoring in no time.

Neuron can monitor the health, performance, and availability of critical business services and the underlying infrastructure. It is very similar to Sun Management Center.

If you're familiar with Halcyon's modules that plug-in into SunMC, the same modules can be plugged in the Neuron agent.

There is a Neuron agent for the Solaris, Linux, AIX, Windows, and Tru64.