SarBox

The software program (SarBox) parses and analyzes SAR data in charts or text formats.

SAR is cumulative activity counters in the operating system. It is the most comprehensive command which helps to monitor performance of various Linux / Solaris subsystems (CPU, Memory, I/O, Disk, Network, etc) all in same log. This makes it difficult to analyze since every counter data is dumped into the log file.

SarBox helps to analyze this log file and present data in graphical charts or text format.

To collect sar statistics from an environment, use below syntax

[user@host ~]# sar -A 30 2 > sar_linux.log
“30 2” reports for every 30 seconds and total of 2 times, written in sar_linux.log.