Solaris Health Check Software Based Sun Management Center To monitor health of Sun Systems, you can install Sun Management Center 3.6.1 from http://www.sun.com//index.jsp?cat=Systems%20istration&tab=3&subcat=Systems%20 Management It is available for free. If you are looking for something specific, give some more details. ‐Ganesh Teamquest Bhavin, We use a combination of ways to check the health of our systems, we use the afore mentioned SunMC which actually is best suited for availability monitoring, we use Teamquest (http://www.teamquest.com/ ) for performance monitoring and homegrown scripts for both. Slightlines Kurt Not a procedure, but we use Sightline Systems software to monitor our systems' health in real time and we can graph events also. You can check it out at their web site http://www.sightlinesystems.com
Script Based From solarispedia http://solarispedia.com/index.php?title=Script:Solaris_10_health_check Syscheck.ksh syscheck.ksh is a tunable systems health check script for Solaris.you can put in cron, to email you if you are running out of resources. http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/
Manual/Command Based Article01 physical checks if there are any fault LEDs on the system, check from the OS level (prtdiag ‐v) and the system controller if there are any errors or faults. Check the HDD status from iostat ‐E output and scan thru the messages file and console logs for any warnings or critical errors. Performance monitoring should also be done for network links, U, memory , swap and time drifts for NTP.. Hi.. For solaris monitoring purpose u can use below commands like iostat, vmstat, prstat, netstat top and sar commands. Otherwise if you need full of GUI monitoring tool u can use orcallator for solaris/linux or nay unix environment. It will give daily,weekly,montly,yearly,all monitoring information it will contains. Regards, ArjunReddy
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