[Fedora-xen] monitoring tools/ statistical information about Xen

[Karel Zak]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 05:43:37PM +0200, Matthias Bayer wrote:
> 
> i'd like to do some performance tests as well as collect statistical
> information about usage of my xen system.
> 
> i know there are the 'native' tools like 'xm' commands or some
> native linux commands like vmstat,top...

 There is the 'virsh' too. (Now probably in FC5 only.)

> xentop gives very good information but does somebody know how to
> track xentop output over time (days) to a file ?
> 
> what i want to achive is collecting data about the usage of each
> DomU, network statistics, performance statistics of the DomU's,
> CPU/memory usage of each DomU as well as from Dom0.
>
> any recommendations about tools ? any ideas about the xentop/top
> output catching ?

 See libvirt.org -- there's python binding for libvirt, so you can
 write a script which will collect some statistics.

 I think that you can work with virtual domains like with normal
 physical machines. It means you can try collect data about it by some
 monitor tools like nagios or whatever.

    Karel

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 Karel Zak  <kzak at redhat.com>