Data Monitoring Agents

The recording module consists of the following data monitoring agents, available for Linux, Windows, Solaris and coming up to other operating systems like: MacOSX, HP-UX. There are five main recorders, called standard monitoring agents, which are present by default on each platform currently supported. Additional we have agents, which are not enabled by default and are specialized for different tasks: per-core statistics, JVM GC statistics, HTTP response time statistics.

Name Role Description Linux Windows MacOSX FreeBSD Solaris HP-UX
sysrec overall system statistics
cpurec per-cpu statistics
diskrec per-disk statistics
nicrec per-NIC statistics
hdwrec software, hardware inventory
corerec core utilization SPARC T1,T2 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
netrec software, hardware inventory
jvmrec Java Virtual Machine GC statistics
procrec per-process statistics
webrec HTTP response time statistics
xenrec Xen Hypervisor domain statistics n/a n/a n/a n/a
  • standard recorder, always on
  • optional recorder, on demand
  • n/a, not applicable