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Need widget to watch for new processes on SunOS/Solaris

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CuJoe

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Feb 1, 2007, 8:11:26 PM2/1/07
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Hello world:

The box I'm talking about is running SunOS 5.5.1 and is a file server.
We have any number of Sparc workstations, using NFS, that access this
file server.

Trying to find out if a long, complicated software build running on the
clients is running anything on the file server.

So, I'd like a way to monitor the server and capture any and all new
processes that start during the build. Wouldn't mind having something
like this for Solaris 2.6 and up, also.

Thx.

Darren Dunham

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Feb 2, 2007, 11:27:29 AM2/2/07
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In comp.unix.solaris CuJoe <cu...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Hello world:

> The box I'm talking about is running SunOS 5.5.1 and is a file server.
> We have any number of Sparc workstations, using NFS, that access this
> file server.

> Trying to find out if a long, complicated software build running on the
> clients is running anything on the file server.

You mean reading the files from the file server? (Presumably they don't
run any processes *on* the file server).

> So, I'd like a way to monitor the server and capture any and all new
> processes that start during the build. Wouldn't mind having something
> like this for Solaris 2.6 and up, also.

If you mean processes starting on the clients, no. You can't. The NFS
server doesn't have access to that information. Even on the client,
there's no obvious interface to ask that question.

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Darren Dunham ddu...@taos.com
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Jim

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Mar 8, 2007, 8:04:37 AM3/8/07
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If the only access is through NFS then the clients can't be running
anything on the server. If they are read/writing a lot of data, then
the server many be busy... but that is merely NFS.

I use a product called up.time to monitor my Solaris machines. It is
client/server system which uses SAR and other OS utilities to collect
and store data on aperiodic basis. It runs a small webserver and an
app which extracts and displays data about all kinds of events
processes on each client. It is not free. Searhc for up.time software
.
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Jim <jen....not....home..remvdots...@....yahoo

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