Recently I found myself in a performance test analyst role on a unix system with no access to customised tools for collecting performance statistics such as Compuware QALoad or Mecury LoadRunner. Not to worry, Solaris 9 comes with a bucket load of native tools that allow you to easily collect statistics. Using a combination of native tools (sar, netstat, top, vmstat and iostat) I wrote a rough but effective shell script to assist in collecting raw performance statistics to later analyse for server resource utilization characterstics.
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