To capture resource monitoring
data from the UNIX rstatd daemon,
you must configure the data source. UNIX rstatd
is bundled with most Linux distributions.
Before you begin
To collect resource monitoring
data from UNIX rstatd, the portmapper
service must be enabled on the host computer. To determine whether
the portmapper service is enabled, type the following on the command
line of the host computer:
rpcinfo -p localhost
The
portmapper service is listed in the output of the
rpcinfo command.
If it is not, contact your system administrator for help with installing
or configuring the portmapper service.
Procedure
- On the Resource Monitoring tab of
the schedule editor, click Enable resource monitoring,
and then click the Add button.
- Click Next and type the hostname
of the computer that you want to monitor.
- In Data Sources, click UNIX rstatd monitor,
and on the Locations tab, specify the connection
parameters:
- Click UDP or TCP protocol.
- To use a different port number, click Use
port and type the port number.
- On the Resource tab, select the
type of data that you want to capture. The tree view shows all available
performance counters, with a default set of counters preselected.
To see all available counters, clear the Show only selected
counters check box. Be selective; monitoring
all possible resource data requires substantial amounts of memory.
Hold your mouse pointer over a counter to see details about what that
counter measures.
- Configure time intervals on the Options tab.
- In Polling Interval, type a time
value in seconds for collecting resource data. For example, if you
accept the default of 5 seconds, counter information will be collected
at 5-second intervals from the specified host during the schedule
run.
- In Timeout Interval, type a time
value in seconds. If the resource monitoring host does not respond
within this amount of time during a schedule run, an error is logged.
- To collect the resource monitoring data for the system under test that is in the cloud, in the
Cloud Options tab, click the Location in Public Cloud
check box.
- Click Next.
- Specify a location and name and click Finish.