At 10:48 AM 1/11/2002 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: >In the last episode (Jan 11), Wilko Bulte said: > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 08:03:36PM -0600, Dustin Puryear wrote: > > > tool available that doesn't require SNMP. Does anyone know of > > > anything for FreeBSD that is sar-like? If a sar-like tool isn't > > > available, I may just begin writing > >Sar and SNMP provide completely different services. Sar gives you >historical reports, where SNMP is a network service that gives you only >the current value of a stat.
Apparently, I wasn't being very clear. I referred to SNMP because it provides a way to collect performance data. By using a tool such as MRTG you can then provide historical performance data, much in the same way as sar. I had left that tidbit as being implied, rather than explicitly stating it. >and sadc. If you don't mind the GPL, the Linux systat package includes >an implementation of sar. In 1999, SCO promised to release their >source under MPL, but never did. Fortunately, I was provided with a link to a tool named bsdsar, which seems to provide sar capabilities. I haven't done any testing yet, but bsdsar looks promising. Anyone else interested may want to take a look. Regards, Dustin --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Information Systems Consultant http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear In the beginning the Universe was created. This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
