Re: Nmon scheduling question

Here's what I use...

I run two commands from "cron":

1) My daily run of "nmon" that catches snapshots every 15 minutes from Midnight until 11:45pm the following night.
2) My daily "nmon_maint.ksh" script that (at 11:55pm) does the daily output-file's analyzer processing and mails it to a mailbox.

My script does the following:

Runs "sort" against the raw datafile.
Runs "gzip" to compress it.
Runs "mv" to rename it w/ the nmon_date variable to save the daily file.
Runs "mutt" to mail the daily datafile as an attachment from inside a script/commmand-line.
("mutt" was the only product at the time that could do this...)
Then, from that mailbox, I simply run the nmon_analyzer against that date's file.

This runs our various AIX (4.3.x & 5.x) and Redhat Linux (2.1, 3.0, & 4.0) servers...

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# run the "nmon" command for daily reporting of system monitoring
55 23 * * * /usr/local/nmon/nmon_maint.ksh
0 0 * * * /usr/local/nmon/nmon -F /usr/local/nmon/lurch.nmon -td -c 900 -s 95
#
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#/bin/ksh
# nmon_maint.ksh
# Script to generate the spread***, compress, & email daily logfiles
# generated by the daily nmon command run by the cron.
#

NMON_DATE=$(date '+%m%d%y_%H%M')

# sort the default output of nmon -x to comma delimited spread***
sort -A /usr/local/nmon/<server>.nmon > /usr/local/nmon/<server>.csv

# compress the files for storage
gzip -q /usr/local/nmon/<server>.csv

# log storage per date
mv -f /usr/local/nmon/<server>.csv.gz /usr/local/nmon/<server>.csv.$NMON_DATE.gz

# mail the spread*** to admins
# mutt -s "Daily Spread*** Results of nmon for <server>" -a /usr/local/nmon/<server>.csv.$NMON_DATE.gz <mailbox> < /dev/null

rm /usr/local/nmon/<server>.nmon

#
# EOF
#
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Regards,

Troy Barnhart, Sr. Systems Programmer
tbarnhart@xxxxxxxx
Regional Health, Inc.
353 Fairmont Boulevard
Rapid City, South Dakota 57701
PH: 605-716-8352 / FAX: 605-716-8302



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From: Larry Scheetz [mailto:LScheetz@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 9:45 AM
To: aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Nmon scheduling question

Admins,

I know that nmon32 is not a supported tool by IBM
but was wondering how others had it setup. I have
it installed on all my AIX 5.2 boxes and it works great.
I have used the analyzer spread *** and all.
I really like this tool. I would like to add this as a
cron entry to run everyday and keep the files for maybe
a week at a time. I want to make sure because these look
like they can get sizeable. What I was going to put is
the following: 0 1 * * * /tmp/nmon_aix32 -s600 -c 144

Does anyone have a suggestion on a cron setting so that
I can capture daily snapshots throughout the day but
for the entire day?



Thx

Larry









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