SDR package
SDR setenv
If you plan to install SDR to a location different than
the default one, /opt/sdr make sure you edit MONITOR_PATH
under setenv script to reflect the correct location
SAR
SDR uses SAR, system activity reporter. SAR is started using SMF
so these are the main steps in order to get started SAR:
Notice: SDR can run without SAR, if needed. System activity reporter collects a
vast information from the server which can be send to the reporting side:
paging activity, kernel memory allocation activity, message and semaphore activities, etc.
SDR Manifests
One very useful feature of SDR under Solaris 10 is SMF: the service management
facility, a way to automatic restart your service in case of a failure, maintenance, etc. SDR uses SMF under Solaris 10 automatically but requires its activation. Below there are the steps used to enable SDR under SMF:
Check recorders and all SDR manifests
# svcs -a | grep rec
# svcadm disable sysrec
# svcadm disable cpurec
# svcadm disable netrec
# svcadm disable nicrec
# svcadm disable zonerec
# svcadm disable jvmrec
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Validate and import all SDR smf manifests
# svccfg validate sysrec.xml
# svccfg validate cpurec.xml
# svccfg validate nicrec.xml
# svccfg validate netrec.xml
# svccfg validate zonerec.xml
# svccfg import sysrec.xml
# svccfg import cpurec.xml
# svccfg import nicrec.xml
# svccfg import netrec.xml
# svccfg import zonerec.xml
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Enable each service
# svcadm enable sysrec
# svcadm enable cpurec
# svcadm enable nicrec
# svcadm enable netrec
# svcadm enable zonerec
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Check all recorders are online
# svcs -a | grep rec
online 16:36:07 svc:/application/sysrec:default
online 16:37:43 svc:/application/cpurec:default
online 16:37:47 svc:/application/nicrec:default
online 16:37:52 svc:/application/netrec:default
online 16:37:56 svc:/application/zonerec:default
# ptree
[...]
3958 /usr/bin/perl -w /opt/sdr/bin/sysrec 60
3972 /bin/perl -w /opt/sdr/bin/cpurec 60
3980 /usr/bin/perl -w /opt/sdr/bin/nicrec 60
3989 /bin/perl -w /opt/sdr/bin/netrec 60
4000 /bin/ksh -p /opt/sdr/bin/zonerec 60
4022 sleep 60
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Check recorded data: the raw data
# pwd
/opt/sdr/log/raw
# ls -lrt
total 25
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 342 Oct 31 16:39 cpurec.raw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 522 Oct 31 16:39 nicrec.raw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 324 Oct 31 16:39 netrec.raw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7552 Oct 31 16:39 zonerec.raw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 263 Oct 31 16:40 sysrec.raw
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Log Rotation
Enable logadm
Enable for each raw file, a entry for logadm to rotate the file
at midnight and to compress the file. For this make sure you are
superuser and modify the /etc/logadm.conf file or use logadm
utility to add the entries.
# SDR Monitoring
/opt/sdr/log/raw/sysrec.raw -c -p 1d -z 0
/opt/sdr/log/raw/cpurec.raw -c -p 1d -z 0
/opt/sdr/log/raw/nicrec.raw -c -p 1d -z 0
/opt/sdr/log/raw/netrec.raw -c -p 1d -z 0
/opt/sdr/log/raw/zonerec.raw -c -p 1d -z 0
At the end make sure you check the consistency of the logadm.conf by running:
# logadm -V
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root crontab
# crontab -e
Add here logadm to be done at 00:05, everyday instead of 3AM
and move the raw data compressed into daily directories.
#
05 00 * * * /usr/sbin/logadm
10 00 * * * /opt/sdr/bin/raw2day
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raw2day is an optional script which simple copies over
the previous data into its own dir. If you consider needed to
simple upload the data into RRD skip this entirely.
