In this post, You can find the information one of the most important monitoring tool application on Solaris operating system. SAR (System Activity Reporter) is used to troubleshoot the performance issue on Sun Solaris Servers.
Using SAR (System Activity Reporter) we can troubleshoot or monitored the disk, memory or cpu performance issues on the Solaris operating system servers.
It is widely used performance tools for monitoring purpose but this utility also have some disadvantages. SAR utility consume lot of disk space when it is generated the report as well as /var file system space get increase rapidly.
Now in the below post we will step by step method to enable the SAR on Solaris Operating system.
Step by step procedure to enable SAR (System Activity Reporter):
1. In the first step we will check the current service status of SAR. To check this thing we will used below command which is mention below.
sun#svcs status sar
disabled Mar_9 svc:/system/sar:default
disabled Mar_9 svc:/system/sar:default
or
sun#svcs -a | grep -i sar
disabled Mar_9 svc:/system/sar:default
If you see the current status of SAR service it is disable. You can use both the above syntax to find out the current service status.
2. As you seen in above step, the SAR service is disable on the Sun Solaris system so in this step we will enable it.
sun#svcadm enable svc:/system/sar:default
Check the status of service again as per below command.
sun# svcs status svc:/system/sar:default
enabled Mar_9 svc:/system/sar:default
3. Now in this step, we will make a setup for automatic data collection. Normally once we enable the services of SAR, the default script for SAR utility are located the below directory location.
/usr/lib/sa/sa1: This is a shell script to collect and store data in the binary file /var/adm/sa/sadd, where dd is the current day.
/usr/lib/sa/sa2: This is a shell script for generating daily report in the file /var/adm/sa/sardd, where dd is current day.
As these above script are used normally to collect the automatically data from Solaris Server. If you required the daily report or weekly report then you need to add both the script in crontab file which is describe in next step.
4. If you required the SAR report regularly then you need to make an entry of above script on the crontab file.
#crontab -e
Using these command you can edit the existing file and make an entry of above script according to your requirement when you want to generate the report.
Please comment on the post, if you have any issue related to this SAR post.
disabled Mar_9 svc:/system/sar:default
If you see the current status of SAR service it is disable. You can use both the above syntax to find out the current service status.
2. As you seen in above step, the SAR service is disable on the Sun Solaris system so in this step we will enable it.
sun#svcadm enable svc:/system/sar:default
Check the status of service again as per below command.
sun# svcs status svc:/system/sar:default
enabled Mar_9 svc:/system/sar:default
3. Now in this step, we will make a setup for automatic data collection. Normally once we enable the services of SAR, the default script for SAR utility are located the below directory location.
/usr/lib/sa/sa1: This is a shell script to collect and store data in the binary file /var/adm/sa/sadd, where dd is the current day.
/usr/lib/sa/sa2: This is a shell script for generating daily report in the file /var/adm/sa/sardd, where dd is current day.
As these above script are used normally to collect the automatically data from Solaris Server. If you required the daily report or weekly report then you need to add both the script in crontab file which is describe in next step.
4. If you required the SAR report regularly then you need to make an entry of above script on the crontab file.
#crontab -e
Using these command you can edit the existing file and make an entry of above script according to your requirement when you want to generate the report.
Please comment on the post, if you have any issue related to this SAR post.
