Obviously you've got great tools like vmstat, the /usr/proc/* tools, sar, iostat, etc. If you want to branch out, SEtoolkit (www.setoolkit.com) can't be beat. Make sure that if you install it you know which version you are getting, the most current build is 64-bit only, so use one back which is 32- and 64-bit for 5.6, 5.7, and 5.8. If you want a graphical front end to it, use Orca (www.orcaware.com). It's basically MRTG for SE Toolkit output. It runs SE checks ever so often and then uses RDDTool to graph all the data over time and display it in a simple web page.

If you REALLY need to have a GUI, then you'll want to get a current (very current) version of Sun Management Center/Symon. You can load several good performance modules to watch stats, but it's slow. The guy who wrote Symon is a great guy and suggests that you isolate one box with a good amount of memory (256M he says) as the server, and do not try to serve and monitor from the same host.

Of all the options, just installing the SE Toolkit and running virtual-adrian for awhile is probly the quickest way to figure out where a problem might be. Zoom.se is a fav too.

Let me know if you want help with it.

benr.

On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 10:46, Joseph Bishop wrote:

Hello,

Does anyone have a favorite tool (GUI) for SUN Solaris performance measurements?

I am trying to have a real time performance problem diagnosis interface across all of my servers that are attached to the filers.

Thanks

Joe