Have you ever come across an attempt to monitor Unix resources with just only rstatd? Where there are no options available to use SiteScope via telnet or SSH? Or simply because of the time factor that you must monitor the Unix resources in the load test conducted the following day? Read the rest of this entry »
Actually, this was a question related to Solaris boxes instead of Unix brought up in the Yahoo LoadRunner Group. We have to differ the purpose of the monitoring to two aspects. (a) Are you monitoring during a load test or (b) are you monitoring in a production environment?
In respond to the questions, I’ve came out with three suggestions: Read the rest of this entry »
To monitor Unix System Resources, you will require rstatd. The rstatd daemon is a server that returns performance statistics obtained from the kernel. The rstatd daemon is normally started by the inetd daemon.
In most cases, rstatd is already configured and started from inet. Therefore, you should verify if the rstatd daemon is already running using rup command. The command should report various machine statistics, including rstatd configuration. Run the following command to view the machine statistics: Read the rest of this entry »