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Hi All,

I have a shell script which pulls the data from 72 different servers. We are running multiple instances of this script into infinite loop i.e we have divided the script into 9 instances and each instance caters to 8 different servers. This scripts ftps the files from the servers, gzips these files and place them into a directory.

Now my problem is i want to make sure that my system doesn't crash because of the mutiple instances.So could anyone please tell me what all i should monitor to check the system's performance?

Thanks in anticipation

Simple monitoring:

You could run a crontab file to check the load average of the server, and if the load average is higher than some number, say 3 to 5, send an email alert to the system administrator.

Thanks a lot Neo for the prompt reply...but i would be great if u can tell me few commands that i shuld run to check the server's health...currently i am using sar command...I tried using top but it's not working...i feel top utility is not available on my server...

Is there anyone who can help me with this problem