monitoring scripts

[gaf at heli-vets.net (Jerry Feldman)]

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 09:16:37 -0500
FRamsay at castelhq.com wrote:

> I'm looking for something to monitor memory on the whole system, not
> just one app.  kind of like running top but I want to see _all_
> processes and I need to produce "Pretty Graphs" for the management
> types.
There is a tload utility that produces a non-graphics based chart. Then
there is xload. 
There is a product called Glance that also produces a system-wide chart.
This is used on some commercial Unixes, but I don't know if is available
for Linux. I'm not a system admin, so I have not had a need to look at
load monitors very frequently. Sar and vmstat have options to run
continuously. You could then take the raw output and use a spreadsheet
to produce some graphs.