SAR GUI

[cybtech]

Hi,
I'm looking for a tool to analyse the result of a "sar" command. The best way would be a Graphical interface. A sort of "sag".
Any clue?

 

[bjverzal]

What do you wish to accomplish, specifically ?

BV

 

[cybtech]

Well,
I'd like to visualize the results grafically.
To be able to analyze the result as quickly as possible without going all away through the output file of the command.

 

[alexhu]

Cut & paste results in Excel - write a macro to make graphs - takes me about 30 secs to generate a graph per system

Alex

 

[KenCunningham]

You could consider sarcheck from

http://www.sarcheck.com

Think it costs, though :-(

 

[cybtech]

Sarcheck seams to be what i'm looking for but it costs and the evaluation version is shipped and not downloadable... I ordered it though.
Any other ideas? I need to analyse the sar results pretty soon.

 

[cybtech]

The excel solution seems to be fine for the moment but i don't know anything about excel macros. Any help about that?

 

[KenCunningham]

Big subject in it's own right - you could try one of the TT Excel forums to see whether anyone has anything they've created to do similar stuff.

 

[alexhu]

To create a macro

cut & paste your sar data into the worksheet

There should be 72 lines for a whole day

make sure the data is in 5 columns (text to columns may help here)

Select all the data

tools > macro > record new macro

fill in the name and the shortcut key

OK

the macro is now recording

go through the process of creating a graph from the data

click the 'stop recording' button when you have finished

Now the next time you want to create a graph, cut & paste, select data, <ctrl-whatever you chose> and the graph will generate

You will probably need to edit graph titles

Thats it

Alex

 

[cybtech]

Ok thank's everyone for all your help,
I think that it would be enough for the moment for what i need to do. However, if someone has a sort of "SAG" available for AIX 5.1 i would be pleased to accept his sharing offer ;o)