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Deep Server Performance Metrics

With up.time's graphical server monitoring software, you can instantly graph and visually analyze all critical server resources within your enterprise regardless of which operating system you are running, including: CPU, memory, disk, processes, workload, network, user, service status and configuration data.

You can quickly determine how critical resources are being consumed over the past few minutes, hours, days, weeks or months. With the data collected by an up.time server monitor, you can immediately graph all server resource statistics, server availability statistics, generate ad-hoc management reports or schedule resource reports for automatic generation and delivery to your email inbox.

Using up.time's server agents and agent-based monitoring, you get the most comprehensive, in-depth capture of operating system specific server resource and performance metrics. Simply install the specific up.time server agent on each operating system you need to monitor, and you will get over 100 different metrics to include in your graphs and reports. Using agents also gives you access to more features, such as custom plug-in monitors, or self-healing through the execution of recovery scripts.

Alternatively, servers can be monitored without agents. Performance data for Windows servers can be collected via WMI. up.time can synchronize with a VMware vCenter inventory, providing performance data for all VMs. Servers can also be monitored without agents using Net-SNMP (download at: http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/).

If the agentless approach is preferred, only the up.time Monitoring Station needs to be installed without the up.time server agents. However, agentless monitoring will provide a more limited set of metrics (e.g., as available from Net-SNMP) for graphing and reporting purposes. For environments requiring in-depth enterprise server reporting, using up.time agents is highly recommended.

Note that not all the following metric category lists are exhaustive, and some variances in metrics listed below do exist between Windows, UNIX, Linux and Novell NRM systems. All of the statistics obtained via Net-SNMP are identical for every operating system where Net-SNMP is installed.

CPU

Metric Agentless
(Net-SNMP)		 Agentless
(WMI)		 Agent-Based
(up.time Agent)
% USR (User) * * *
% SYS (System) * * *
% WIO (Wait I/O) * * *
% TOTAL *   *
Available KBytes   * *
% Usage   * *
Run Queue Length   * *
Run Queue Occupancy     *

Multi-CPU

Metric Agentless
(Net-SNMP)		 Agentless
(WMI)		 Agent-Based
(up.time Agent)
CPU ID * * *
USR * * *
SYS * * *
WIO * * *
System Time Per CPU     *
Wait I/O Time Per CPU     *
User + System + Wait I/O   * *
Spins on Mutexes per CPU     *
Interprocess Cross-Calls     *
Interrupts (INTR)   * *

Memory

Metric Agentless
(Net-SNMP)		 Agentless
(WMI)		 Agent-Based
(up.time Agent)
Free Memory * * *
Cache Hit Rate     *
Cache Faults per Second   * *
PageOut Per Second   * *
PageIn Per Second   * *
PageFree Per Second     *
PageScan Per Second     *
Page Faults Per Second   * *
Transition Faults Per Second   * *
Free Swap *   *

Process - Per Process

Metric Agentless
(Net-SNMP)		 Agentless
(WMI)		 Agent-Based
(up.time Agent)
Process Name * * *
PID * * *
PPID   * *
UID     *
GID     *
Memory Consumed * * *
Virtual Bytes   * *
RSS     *
CPU % Utilization by Process   * *
Memory % Utilization by Process     *
Process Start Time     *
Process Run Time * * *

Process - System Level

Metric Agentless
(Net-SNMP)		 Agent-Based
(up.time Agent)
Number of Processes Running * *
Number of Blocked Processes   *
Number of Waiting Processes   *
Execs Per Second   *
Process Creation Rate   *

Process - Novell NRM Only

Metric Novell NRM
(no agent required)
DS Thread Usage *
Allocated Server Processes *
Available Server Processes *
Abended Thread Count *
Available Memory *
Work To Do Response Time *
Packet Receive Buffers *
Available ECBs *
LAN Traffic *
Available Disk Space *
Disk Throughput *
Connection Usage *

Workload

Metric Agent-Based
(up.time Agent)
Workload by Process *
Workload by User *
Workload by Group *
Workload Top 10 by Process *
Workload Top 10 by User *
Workload Top 10 by Group *

Network

Metric Agentless
(Net-SNMP)		 Agentless
(WMI)		 Agent-Based
(up.time Agent)
Network I/O * * *
In Kbps * * *
Out Kbps * * *
In Errors * * *
Out Errors * * *
Collisions     *
TCP Retransmits   * *

Network Device Ports

Metric Agentless
(SNMP)
Total Rate Mbps *
In Mbps *
Out Mbps *
In Usage % *
In Usage % *
Out Usage % *
Errors *
In Errors *
Out Errors *
Discards *
In Discards *
Out Discards *

Disk - Physical/Logical Disk Performance

Metric Agentless
(WMI)		 Agent-Based
(up.time Agent)
Disk (Spindle) Name   *
Usage (% Busy) * *
Throughput (Blk/s) * *
Read/Writes/s * *
Average Disk Bytes Per Transfer * *
Average Queue Length   *
Average Service Time * *
Average Wait Time   *

File System Capacity:

Metric Agentless
(Net-SNMP)		 Agentless
(WMI)		 Agent-Based
(up.time Agent)
File System Name * * *
File System Size * * *
File System Used * * *
File System Available   * *
File System % Used   * *

Veritas Volume Manager

Metric Agent-Based
(up.time Agent)
DG/Volume/Subdisk *
I/O Operations (Read/Write) *
Block Throughput (Read/Write) *
Average Service Time (Read/Write) *

User

Metric Agentless
(Net-SNMP)		 Agentless
(WMI)		 Agent-Based
(up.time Agent)
Number of Users Logged In *   *
User Name + Number User Sessions     *

Services

Metric Agentless
(Net-SNMP)		 Agentless
(WMI)		 Agent-Based
(up.time Agent)
Service Status * * *
Last Check Time * * *
Duration in Current State * * *
Acknowledged * * *
Current State * * *
Time in Okay State * * *
Time in Warning State * * *
Time in Critical State * * *
Time in Unknown State * * *
% Time Okay * * *
% Time Warning * * *
% Time Critical * * *
% Time Unknown * * *
Outage Diagnosis * * *

Configuration

Configuration Item Agentless
(Net-SNMP)		 Agentless
(WMI)		 Agent-Based
(up.time Agent)
System Name * * *
Domain (YP)   * *
Architecture * * *
Operating System Version   * *
Number of CPUs * * *
Memory Size * * *
Page Size   * *
Swap Size * * *

Logical Volume Manager Installed?
(Veritas or Solaris DiskSuite)

     *
Host ID     *
CPU Configurations * * *
Network Interface Configurations * * *
File System Layout * * *
Volume Manager Layout     *

WebLogic Performance Metrics

Metric Agentless
Failures To Reconnect *
Connection Delay Time *
Active Connections Current Count *
Active Connections High Count *
Leaked Connections Count *
Current Capacity *
Number of Available Sessions *
Waiting For Connection Current Count *
Access Total Count *
Beans In Current Use Count *
Cached Beans Current Count *
Activation Count *
Passivation Count *
Cache Access Count *
Cache Miss Count *
Heap Size Current *
Heap Free Current *
Open Sockets Current Count *
Accept Backlog *
Execute Thread Current Idle Count *
Pending Request Current Count *
Transaction Committed Total Count *
Transaction Rolled Back Total Count *
Invocation Total Count *

WebSphere Performance Counters

Counter Agentless
Create Count *
Remove Count *
Passivate Count *
Method Call Count *
Method Response Time *
Connection Pool Size *
Free Pool Size *
Percent Used *
Wait Time *
Close Count *
Connection Pool Count *
Waiting Thread Count *
Use Time *
CPU Usage *
Heap Size *
Used Memory *
Active Count *
Committed Count *
Rolled Back Count *
Live Count *
Time Since Last Activated *
Servlet Pool Size *

VMware vSphere Metrics

Counter Agentless
CPU *
CPU Reservation/Entitlement *
Memory *
Network I/O *
Disk I/O *
Disk Latency (Total, Kernel, Device) *
Disk Commands Aborted / Issued *
Disk Bus Resets *
% Ready *
% Used *
% Wait *
Memory Balloon/Target *
Memory Overhead *
Memory Swap In/Out *
Memory Swap Used/Target *
Memory Zero *
Memory *
Network I/O *
Power Usage *
Power States *
NIC/vNIC Error Rate *
NIC/vNIC Transmit Rate *

AIX LPAR Metrics

Counter Agent-Based
(up.time Agent)
lpar_id *
putt *
entitlement *
cpus *
capped *
smt *
memory_total *
memory_used *
net_packets_tx *
net_packets_rx *
net_bytes_tx *
net_bytes_rx *
disk_kbytes_out *
disk_kbytes_in *