Hi Guys,

I am new to red hat. I need to monitor server performance and make a report. Can someone suggest which tools can be used to monitor the performance and what shall i include in the report.

Advance thanks

Kumaran

You should have sar (system activity report) running by default; if not, install it. It measures your system every 10 min or so and creates daily reports on about every system performance aspect you can think of.

You should find those reports in /var/log/sa (may be different depending on distro). Since the files contain binary data, you need to read them with the sar command.

Thanks buddy. It helped me. What about if I want to check for RAM and disk utilization?

sar -r: Report memory utilization statistics.
sar -d: Report activity for each block device

What services does the server provide?
Is there a central monitoring system?
Who is the report for and what should be in the report?
Do you have some other servers report template you could glean nfo from and adapt?

thanks berndbausch. you helped me alots buddy.

upSpawn. Hi dude. we have three servers. all of them are db servers. the report should consist like performance report/ram/disk utilization reports. And I dont have any report samples dude. just googling them. thanks.

The reason for asking counter questions is to ensure we understand your situation better. Right now it seems you've managed to reply to two out of four questions. So unless you're sorted already there's still some pieces of information missing. Because IMHO measuring performance isn't about just SAR values, even less so with a database server. What you could do if you have no clue is research what performance counters and alerting products like Icinga, Zabbix, Cacti, (New Relic,?) PRTG, etc, etc can display for a database service and server and see if that's granular enough for the purpose of reporting.

upSpawn, sorry for the late and lack info i provided, the servers provides informix, postgress and oracle services. There is no central monitoring system

Another favour guys, I need a cronjob that i can backup a file from one server(informix server .66) to the windows(remote desktop .47). How can I do that. What commands/scripts can i use. And yeah, I need to overwrite the files. Please help.

Thank you very much guys...