Ksar is a BSD-licensed

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-based application that creates graphs of all parameters from

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collected by Unix sar utilities. Usually, Unix sar is part of

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package, and runs sa1, sa2, and sadc through

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to created

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s in /var/log/sa/saNN. Characteristics include: * Images can be zoomed by dragging the

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on an image to pinpoint problems * Results can be exported to

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format

Syntax and options

Below is the list of

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options supported by Ksar. Ksar's -help option will list all supported options of the applicable Ksar version. $ java -jar kSar.jar -help kSar version: 5.0.6 Usage: -version: show kSar version number -help: show this help - input :

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must be either ssh://user@host/command or cmd://command or file://path/to/file or just /path/to/file -graph : space separated list of graph to be output -showCPUstacked: will make the

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used graph as stacked -showMEMstacked: will make the memory graph as stacked (

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only) -cpuFixedAxis: will graph CPU used with fixed axis from 0% to 100% -showIntrListstacked : will make the Interrupt List graph as stacked -showTrigger: will show trigger on graph (disabled by default) -noEmptyDisk: will not export disk with no data -tile: will tile

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-userPrefs: will use the userPrefs for outputting graphs (last export of this host) -showOnlygraphName: will only print graph name available for that data (to be use for -graph) -addHTML: will create an

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page with PNG/

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image -outputPDF : output the pdf report to the pdf file -outputPNG : output the graphs to PNG file using argument as base filename -outputJPG : output the graphs to JPG file using argument as base filename -outputCSV : output the CSV file -width : make JPG/PNG with specified width size (default: 800) -height : make JPG/PNG with specified height size (default: 600) -startdate : will graph the range beginning at that time -enddate : will graph the range until that date -solarisPagesize : will set solaris pagesize - wizard: open with unified

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popup -replaceShortcut : replace all shortcuts with those in the

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file -addShortcut : add shortcut from the xml file -startup: open window marked for opening at

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Generating SAR Text Files for Ksar Use

* To begin gathering sysstat history information for use of the sar command, systat should be configured to run through cron (preferably every minute). More instructions are available o
the systat web site
* Generating sar text file with all system resources information *: DT="10" LC_ALL=C sar -A -f /var/log/sa/sa$DT > /tmp/sar-$(hostname)-$DT.txt ls -l /tmp/sar-$(hostname)-$DT.txt * Generating only disk information from a sar data file *:(Note that sar will collect disk information only if sadc is running with -d option thru cron) *: DT="10" LC_ALL=C sar -d -p -f /var/log/sa/sa$DT > /tmp/sar-$(hostname)-$DT.txt ls -l /tmp/sar-$(hostname)-$DT.txt * Generating a text file for multiple days *: DT="12 13 14" >/tmp/sar-$(hostname)-multiple.txt for i in $DT; do LC_ALL=C sar -A -f /var/log/sa/sa$i >> /tmp/sar-$(hostname)-multiple.txt done ls -l /tmp/sar-$(hostname)-multiple.txt For getting all the days in the default folder, you can replace the hardcoded DT variable with: DT=$(ls /var/log/sa/sa -90-9] , sed 's_/var/log/sa/sa_ _g' , xargs)

External links

How to use ksar - cyberciti article

Sourceforge Ksar Project Page
Job scheduling Computer performance System administration BSD software

Syntax and options

Generating SAR Text Files for Ksar Use

See also

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