management question tracking and history of "load"

From: <kdea_at_alpine-la.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:47:52 -0700

Managers,

Our upper management would like some kind of historical tracking of how
"busy" our Alpha servers are. I believe a very simple metric, as simple as
load average found on "uptime" will suffice. And getting load over time.
But is there a system, method, or software where I can get this kind of
data, and probably put into excel spreadsheets?

I've dabbled with performance monitor, but it seems a bit more complicated
than I would need. I don't need memory usage or hd usage, just knowing if
a computer was generally idle or busy over the days.

I'm sure this has been requested of other sysadmins out there, what have
you done to fulfil this request?

--
Kevin Dea
UNIX System Administrator
Alpine Electronics Research of America
Received on Mon Aug 30 2004 - 22:49:53 NZST

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