Logging a topas/monitor into a file

[MoshiachNow]

Dealing with capturing a system status into a text log file - I'd like to capture 1 topas/monitor/nmon screen into this log.

I need it to look exactly the way it looks on the screen- unformatted,neither for excel or anything else.
Playing with topas/monitor/nmon - did not reach this goal so far.
Would appreciate any ideas.
Thanks

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[MoshiachNow]

MIke,

capture seems to be the giving what I need.
However I have failed so fat to run it offline from script:

# cat kkk
echo "" >/tmp/ANSWER
echo "topas" >> /tmp/ANSWER

# cat lll
capture < kkk >l.log
sleep 4
kill `ps -ef |grep -v grep|awk '/topas/ {print $2}'`

running lll gives error :
lll
tcgetattr: Not a typewriter
Terminated

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[p5wizard]

I would guess you need expect for that kind of stuff. capture needs a tty or pty as stdin, a text file won't do.



HTH,

p5wizard

 

[MoshiachNow]

Thanks,p5wizard

Unfortunately "expect" is not part of our standard AIX 5.2 ML01 SW (which we distribute it to our 5000 customers ...).
Does not make sense to me to get an "expect" package added to our oficial AIX vesrion - just to get one topas screen captured into the log.
Will have to leave without it - was "nice to have".
Thanks to all.

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[sbix]

What's the problem on using nmon?

 

[MoshiachNow]

sbix,

I need the topas (pr could be nmon) ,couple of screens ,AS SEEN ON THE SCREEN,into a text log.And it's activated from a script that collects system info ....
nmon did not get me there .
Thanks

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[sbix]

Uhm ... I see ... you need to capture a screen shot as "evidence on the crime scene" ....
... what about the timing of the screen shot?
Well ... you can reduce the amount of non printable chars by running topas with -m switch ... then you can set the sampling interval with -i switch and execute something like:
topas -mi 3 > goofie 2>&1 &
TOPAS=$!
sleep 7 # To capture 2 screen shots
kill -9 $TOPAS

 

[MoshiachNow]

topas -mi 3
topas: illegal option -- m

Usage: topas [-d number_of_monitored_hot_disks]
[-h show help information]
[-i monitoring_interval_in_seconds]
[-n number_of_monitored_hot_network_interfaces]
[-p number_of_monitored_hot_processes]
[-w number_of_monitored_hot_WLM classes]
[-c number_of_monitored_hot_CPUs]
[-P show full-screen process display]
[-U username - show username owned processes with -P]

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[sbix]

uhm ... I don't know which version of topas you're running ...(I am running AIX 5.2 ML05)
well -m switch means monochrome ... so it isn't that important

 

[MoshiachNow]

AIX 5.2,ML01
Cheers.

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