Does anyone track or log the load (CPU, NFS ops, network in/out, etc.) on their Network Appliance boxes (over time)? If so, I'd like to hear about your experiences.
Dan
In internal.lists.toasters, you wrote:
Does anyone track or log the load (CPU, NFS ops, network in/out, etc.) on their Network Appliance boxes (over time)? If so, I'd like to hear about your experiences.
We track everything we can get from sysstat and netstat. It gets written to log files and timestamped where we can graph it on-demand via a CGI script and form.
We've found it to be a very helpful aide in diagnosing problems. If we start to see sluggish performance, we can at least determine if something is different today than it was two weeks ago.
We are also able to use this setup to predict when it is time to order another filer, disks, NIC, etc.
Tripp
+--- In a previous state of mind, Tripp Cox tripp@mindspring.com wrote: | | We track everything we can get from sysstat and netstat. It gets | written to log files and timestamped where we can graph it on-demand | via a CGI script and form.
What are you using to get the filer to write the data? Some expect scripts or such?
It would be nice to have a syslog facility which would do this... :)
As for the graphing, no problem :)
Alexei
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998 23:39:47 -0400, Alexei Rodriguez wrote:
What are you using to get the filer to write the data? Some expect scripts or such?
Yes. We run shell scripts out of cron that do a series of rsh commands to the filer.
It would be nice to have a syslog facility which would do this... :)
Indeed.
Tripp
On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 06:52:52PM -0700, Daniel Quinlan wrote:
Does anyone track or log the load (CPU, NFS ops, network in/out, etc.) on their Network Appliance boxes (over time)? If so, I'd like to hear about your experiences.
I use mrtg to graph the operation of my NetApp using SNMP. You can find mrtg at:
http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/mrtg.html
Dan
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