On Apr 19,  9:30am, Simper, Brian D wrote:

> I am trying to configure Tivoli to function on some Linux servers at work.
> I am trying to get certain bits of information from the system that do not
> seem readily available.  First, there is no native sar command, which, as
> you probably know, is commonly used on other UNIX flavors to obtain File
> Table Space.  
> 
> Also, is there a command to obtain Processor Status information?  Short of
> upgrading the kernel and installing packages external to RedHat 6.2, do you
> know of any work-arounds?   
> 
> File Table Space:  
> HPUX: sar -v 1 1 | tail -1 | awk '{print $8}' 
> 
> Processor Status:
> BSDi: /usr/local/bin/cpustat
> Solaris: /usr/sbin/psrinfo | grep -c "off-line"  

sar does exist on my Red Hat 7.0 box.

sysctl exists in both Red Hat 6.2 and 7.X

If all else fails, you can just query /proc.

Kevin