Workstation performance analysis or dashboard

(imported topic written by CarlosDemetrio[IBM])

Hi folks,

One of my customers wants to see some kind of report of “workstation performance” of their environment. Something like:

  • Computers are running with more than 90% of CPU consumption;
  • Computers that are using more than 90% of physical memory;
  • Computers that are using more than 90% of hard drive space;
  • Time to boot
  • Time to shutdown

The free disk space is at computer properties, but I’ve no idea of how to get the other informations. If possible, they would like to see it in a dashboard format, with graphs representing more than one threshold (a pizza graph for CPU < 50%; CPU >50% < 90%; CPU > 90% and so on);

I was wondering if event viewer events or perfmon logs could provide it.

Does anybody have already worked with fixlets to read perfmon logs or eventviewer events?

Thanks in advance

Carlos Demetrio

(imported comment written by danpowers1)

Carlos -

We were able to create an integration between BigFix and Nagios - basically creating Analysis to capture data for CPU/DISK/MEMORY/PROCESS. Then using Perl and SOAP API pull this data every few minutes from the Web Reports into Nagios which then gave us a complete monitoring picture of the Endpoints

(imported comment written by CarlosDemetrio[IBM])

That would be nice! I’ve checked something about Nagios, it’s really a great tool. Do you have some examples of analysis about CPU and Memory? These values changes in real-time and we’re not sure yet about how to measure it.

I’m testing this custom add-on TEM Computer Browser -
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli+Endpoint+Manager/page/Computer+Browser

It shows performance data, but only for one computer at a time.

Thank you

(imported comment written by liuhoting)

Hmmm, would something like this be a good candidate for a new project in Bigfix Labs?

(imported comment written by CarlosDemetrio[IBM])

Sure it would!

More than one customer had already asked us to provide something like it to real-time monitoring for workstations working as points of sale, self service kiosks (like the used by airlines to print your own ticket) and so on.

(imported comment written by liuhoting)

Ok I think I’m going to add this in our list of proposed prototypes that we can have folks working on. Hopefully it makes it out to lab. Carlos I might be reaching out to you to get more details about what we might like to see in this proposed set of analyses / dashboards.

(imported comment written by CarlosDemetrio[IBM])

Great!