Performance Monitoring

One of my goals for the next few months is to start colelcting system data from a number of computers, and run some data mining techniques to capture performance statistics, and monitor behaviour, and downtimes.

To this end the first step is to collect system data.

Windows
For windows machines I'm am trying out perfmon.msc. (See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305610) It captures various metrics and can output them to a file. I can then periodically batch the file to a central area for processing

Unix
There are lots of various tools for unix varients. See http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=29666&seqNum=4

• top
• vmstat
• ps aux
• bonnie (for disk monitoring)

from here http://www.unix.com/linux/24390-linux-unix-performance-monitoring-2.html

Unix Performance Montioring commands
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vmstat - report virtual memory statistics
iostat - report io statistics
mpstat - report processor statistics
netstat - report network statists
prstat - process statistics