Monitoring

From Laen

Contents 1 Runaway Processes 2 RAM Suckers 3 Poor disk performance 4 Querying System Information 4.1 Solaris 4.2 AIX

Runaway Processes

Use top to grab a list of the top processes. If a process stays in the top positions for more than N hours, alert.

RAM Suckers

ps -o rss,vsz,pid,user,args Look for memory leaks by watching the progression in process size..

Poor disk performance

Graphs of avgwait, svc_t, and %b from iostat.

Querying System Information

Solaris

• prtdiag
• psrinfo -v
• prtconf

AIX

• lscfg
• bootinfo -r
• prtconf