ACCT-9626 - Sysstat accounting data

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Control details
CategoryAccounting
Application

Description

Sysstat collects system information

How to solve

Install the sysstat package to obtain the supporting tools

Tools

  • sar: collects and also reports about system activity information
  • iostat: reports CPU utilization and disk I/O stats
  • mpstat: reports global and processor stats
  • pidstat: reports statistics for Linux processes
  • sadf: displays data collected by sar

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