Performance Management with
Free and Bundled Tools
Adrian Cockcroft
Netflix Inc.
acockcroft@netflix.com
(Co-authored with Mario Jauvin
MFJ Associates
mario@mfjassociates.net)
2 May, 2009
The Performance People

Agenda
Overview of Capacity Planning Requirements
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and Data Sources
Performance Data Collection
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Free Network Monitoring Tools
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Free System Monitoring Tools
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Free Load Generation and Modelling Tools
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Licences and References
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What are we talking about?
QA Load generation with
Grinder or SLAMD,
modelling with PDQ and R
Network
monitoring with
Application Tier
WireShark, MRTG,
monitoring with Orca,
Hobbit/Xymon,
Cacti, Hobbit/Xymon,
BigSister, Cacti,
BigSister, Ganglia,
Nagios, OpenNMS,
XEtoolkit
Zenoss, Openxtra,
ntop Database Tier monitoring
With SEtoolkit, Orca,
XEtoolkit
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Capacity Planning
Requirements and Data
Sources
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Definitions
Capacity
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– Resource utilization and headroom
Planning
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– Predicting future needs by analyzing historical data
and modeling future scenarios
Performance Monitoring
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– Collecting and reporting on performance data
Free Tools
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– Bundled with the OS or available for no $$$
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Capacity Planning Requirements
We care about CPU, Memory, Network and Disk
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resources, and Application response times
We need to know how much of each resource we
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are using now, and will use in the future
We need to know how much headroom we have to

handle higher loads
We want to understand how headroom varies, and
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how it relates to application response times and
throughput
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Capacity Planning Challenges
Constantly changing infrastructure
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Limited attention span from staff
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Horizontally scaled commodity systems
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Per node software licencing costs too much
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Too many tools, too many agents per node
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Too much data, not enough analysis
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Non-linear and non-intuitive scalability
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Lack of tools and metrics for virtualized resources
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Observability
Four different viewpoints
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Management
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Engineering
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QA Testing
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Operations
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Each needs very different information
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Ideal would be different views of the same

performance database
Reality is a mess of disjoint tools
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Management Viewpoint
Daily summary of status and problems
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Business oriented metrics
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Future scenario planning
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Marketing and management input
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Concise report with dashboard style status
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indicators
Free tools: R, Spreadsheet and Web
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based displays, no good summarization
tools
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Engineering Viewpoint
Large volumes of detailed data at several different

time scales
Input to tuning, reconfiguring and future product

development
Low level problem diagnosis
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Detailed reports with drill down and correlation
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analysis
Free tools: XE/SE Toolkit, Orca, Ganglia, Cacti, R
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QA Test Viewpoint
Workload specification tools
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Load generation frameworks
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Testing for functionality and performance
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Regression tools to compare releases

Modelling difference between test configuration

and production configuration
Free Tools: The Grinder, SLAMD, R, PDQ
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Operations Viewpoint
Immediate timeframe
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Real time display, updated in seconds
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Alert based monitoring
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High level problem diagnosis

Simple high level graphs and views
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Free tools: Hobbit/Xymon, BigSister,
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Nagios, OpenNMS, MRTG, Cacti, Ganglia,
WireShark, ntop
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Measurement Data Interfaces
Several generic raw access methods
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Read the kernel directly (not a good idea)
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Structured system data (Solaris kstat, Linux /proc)
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Process data
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Network data
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Accounting data
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Application data
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Command based data interfaces
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Scrape data from vmstat, iostat, netstat, sar, ps
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Higher overhead, lower resolution, missing metrics
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Data available is platform specific either way
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Much more detail on this topic in the Solaris/Linux Performance
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Measurement and Tuning slide deck
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Free Network
Monitoring Tools
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SNMP
Simple network management protocol
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UDP protocol based on port 161
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Client/server like
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Client is called management application entity
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Server is called an agent entity
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Agent entity is designed to be implemented
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on network hardware, router, switches, etc
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SNMP – MIBs
Management information base
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Defines the structure and the semantic of the

information that can be reported on
Most commonly used is MIB-II which defines a set of
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standard networking attributes
Interface tables
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System level information
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Routing tables
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Specified using ASN.1 (abstract syntax notation 1)
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SNMP – commands
Called PDU (protocol data units)
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GET
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GETNEXT
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GETBULK
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SET
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Encoded using BER (basic encoding rules)
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Versions
Version 1, original version done in May 1991
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Version 2, around 1993. Failed because the
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IETF credo of “rough consensus and running
code” could not be met on securing SNMP
Turned into V2c for community string security
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(like V1)
Version 3, added security and complexity in
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1998
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SNMP tools
Too numerous to name all but…
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OpenNMS
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Nagios
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Cacti
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MRTG
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Net-snmp
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See www.snmplink.org
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SNMP tools
Snmpwalk – will report all data in a specified
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MIB
getIf – will report data about interfaces and
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includes built-in MIB browser
Snmptable – will report tabular data from MIB
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tables
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OpenNMS
Well…. it’s not that portable
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95% java is not 100% java
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Requires about 20-30 different platform specific
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packages (PostgreSQL, Perl, RRD tool, Tomcat 4
etc…)
Difficult to install
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Easy auto discovery
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Web-based interface
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OpenNMS
Main screen shot
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OpenNMS
Node screen shot
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Nagios
Easy to build/compile (on Solaris 10)
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Easy to install
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Quick response from CGI
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Configuration is manual and a pain
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13 configuration files with all kinds of interrelated
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entries
Tedious and error prone
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Requires plugins to do anything
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Nagios
Main screen shot
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Nagios
Host detail screen shot
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ntop
Similar to familiar UNIX top tool for
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processes but used for network
Provide huge selection of real-time data
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Can be found at http://www.openxtra.co.uk/
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ntop – Active Sessions
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ntop Hosts
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ntop Network Load
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ntop_Network_Thruput
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ntop Port Dist
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ntop_Protocol_Dist
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ntop Protocols
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Zenoss
Open source monitoring and management of

IT infrastructure
Zenoss core is free
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Other editions are for a fee
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Get it from http://www.zenoss.com/download/
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zenoss Architecture
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zenoss Dash Config
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zenoss Google
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zenoss Google Alerts
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Zenoss Graphs
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zenoss Topology
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Zeroshell
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Zeroshell (cont)
Small Linux distribution for servers and

embedded devices
Provides network services:
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Load balancing
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RADIUS
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QoS
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Captive portal, proxy, wireless access point
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IPT-Netflow
Netflow Linux kernel module for collecting
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per connection traffic
Designed for Linux router with heavy network
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load
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NFDUMP and NfSen
NFDUMP is a set of tools to capture/record,

dump, filter and replay Netflow data
Filters based on user-defines profiles
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NfSen is a graphical Web-based front-end for
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NFDUMP
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NetTraMet and others
Meter for network traffic flows
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First implementation of real time flow
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measurement (RTFM) or RFC 1272
Flow-tools
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Software package for collecting and processing
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NetFlow data
See HUGE list of flow management tools at
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http://www.switch.ch/network/projects/completed/
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TF-NGN/floma/software.html
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Internet2 Performance Node: Live
CD
perfSONAR Network Performance Toolkit
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2.0
Customized version of a Knoppix (bootable

Linux distribution)
Ping/traceroute
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OWANP (one-way ping)
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BWCTL (bandwidth Test Controller)
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Iperf (measure maximum TCP bandwidth)
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Trulay
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Internet2 NetFlow reports
Interactive weekly reports
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Dates back to 2002
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Bulk data (more than 10MB) and full data
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Throughputs, size, durations, percentiles
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Application types
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Internet2 NetFlow reports
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MRTG
Really simple to install and configure
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Require manual config file creation
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Only for MIB-II interface plotting out of the
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box
Graphing not flexible, axis, time etc
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MRTG
Interface screen shot
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MRTG
Other CPU screen shot
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RRD tool
Software to store, retrieve and graph

numerical time series data
Use a round robin algorithm
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Data files are a fixed size
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Don’t grow
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Don’t require maintenance
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RRD tool
Compiles on most platforms
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Used by many SNMP based tools
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OpenNMS
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Cacti
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BigSister
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WeatherMap4RRD
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MailGraph
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RRD tool
14all CGI script that plots data similar to

MRTG
Configurable to collect data at different

interval (unlike MRTG)
Flexible and variable in what data can be

collected
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RRD tool
Sample screen shot
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RRD tool
Screen shot
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RRD tool
Create a RRD database
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rrdtool create test.rrd \\
--start 920804400 \\
DS:speed:COUNTER:600:U:U \\
RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:24 \\
RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:6:10
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RRD tool
Create a graph
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rrdtool graph speed.png \\
--start 920804400 --end 920808000 \\
DEF:myspeed=test.rrd:speed:AVERAGE \\
LINE2:myspeed#FF0000
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Free Performance Data
Collection and Rules
Toolkits
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SE toolkit Example Tools
A free performance toolkit for rapidly creating custom data sources

Makes all the very extensive Solaris metrics easily available
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Very system specific and not enough metrics exist to port to Linux
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Written by Rich Pettit with contributions from Adrian Cockcroft
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Get SE3.4 from http://sourceforge.net/projects/setoolkit/
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Open source with support for SPARC & x86 Solaris 8, 9, 10
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Function Example SE Programs
Rule Monitors cpg.se monlog.se mon_cm.se live_test.se percollator.se
zoom.se virtual_adrian.se virtual_adrian_lite.se
Disk Monitors siostat.se xio.se xiostat.se iomonitor.se iost.se xit.se disks.se
CPU Monitors cpu_meter.se vmmonitor.se mpvmstat.se
Process Monitors msacct.se pea.se ps-ax.se ps-p.se pwatch.se pw.se
Network Monitors net.se tcp_monitor.se netmonitor.se netstatx.se nfsmonitor.se nx.se
Clones iostat.se uname.se vmstat.se nfsstat-m.se perfmeter.se xload.se
Data browsers aw.se infotool.se multi_meter.se
Contributed Code anasa dfstats kview systune watch orcollator.se
Test Programs syslog.se cpus.se pure_test.se collisions.se uptime.se dumpkstats.se
net_example nproc.se kvmname.se
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SE language features
SE is a 64bit interpreted dialect of C
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– Not a new language to learn from scratch!
– Standard C /usr/ccs/bin/cpp used at runtime to preprocess SE scripts
– Main omissions - pointer types and goto
– Main additions - classes and “string” type
– powerful ways to handle dynamically allocated data
– built-in fast balanced tree routines for storing key indexed data
Dynamic linking to all existing C libraries

– Built-in classes access kernel data
– Supplied class code hides details, provides the data you want
Example scripts improve on basic utilities e.g. siostat.se, nx.se, pea.se
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Example rule based monitors e.g. virtual_adrian.se, orcallator.se
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Creating Rules
Based on real experiences of all the things that go

wrong
Capture an approximation to intuition

Test and calibrate rules on as many systems as

possible
Easy??
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Configuring Rules
Thresholds should be configured

Very application dependent

Capture the operating envelope
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Measure the underlying values
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Measure peaks in normal operation
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Note values during problems
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Set thresholds to capture the difference
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This applies to any tool

SE Toolkit, Cacti, Ganglia, Nagios, OpenNMS etc.
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Rules as Objects
Define only the input and output information
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Hide implementation details
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Make high level rule objects trivial to use and

reuse
SE Toolkit does it in three lines of code:
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#include <rules file>
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Declare rule object as a typed variable
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Read and use or print object status
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\"virtual adrian\" rules summary
Disk Rule for all disks at once
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– Looks for slow disks and unbalanced usage
Network Rule for all networks at once

– Looks for slow nets and unbalanced usage
Swap Rule - Looks for lack of available swap space

RAM Rule - Looks for short page residence times
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CPU Power Rule

– Scales on MP systems
– Looks for long run queue delays
Mutex Rule - Looks for kernel lock contention and high sys CPU time

TCP Rule
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– Looks for listen queue problems
– Reports on connection attempt failures
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XE Toolkit - www.xetoolkit.com
Complete re-write of SE Toolkit by Rich Pettit

Extensible Java collector, customize with jar files
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Release 1.2 available April 2008
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Multi-platform support Solaris, Linux/x86, Windows, BSD,
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OSX, HP-UX, AIX, Linux/s390, Linux/Power
Licencing

Free GPL version for standard use and shared derivations
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Open source, hosted at http://sourceforge.net/projects/xe-toolkit/
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Commercial support available if needed
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Commercial product license for custom in-house derivations
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Addresses all the issues people had with SE toolkit !
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Captive Metrics / XE Toolkit
Architecture
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Free System Monitoring
Tools
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Collated Performance Data - Orca
Problems with time sync when collecting data from multiple tools

– No timestamp at all for vmstat, netstat, df...
– No timestamp by default for iostat and ps...
– No way to collect realtime stats from an http logfile
Use SE Toolkit to generate one timestamped row containing all the data

– First version of percollator.se written by Adrian Cockcroft in 1996
– Extended orcallator.se written by Blair Zajac a few years later
– Graphs generated by orca batch job feeding rrdtool based web pages
– Active community developing tool at http://www.orcaware.com
– Extended to collect much more data, including process workloads
– Basic data collection ported to Linux, HP-UX and Windows
Orca is basically MRTG for System metrics rather than Network

See http://www.orcaware.com/orca/docs/Orca_Understanding_Performance_Data.ppt
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Orca data collections
Collected using “procollator” reading info from /proc on Linux

[Uptime] [Average # Processes in Run Queue (Load Average)] [CPU
Usage] [New Process Spawn Rate] [Number of System & Running
Processes] [Context Switches & Interrupts Rate] [Interface Input Bits Per
Second] [Interface Output Bits Per Second] [Interface Input Packets Per
Second] [Interface Output Packets Per Second] [Interface Input Errors Per
Second] [Interface Output Errors Per Second] [Interface Input Dropped Per
Second] [Interface Output Dropped Per Second] [Interface Output
Collisions] [Interface Output Carrier Losses] [TCP Current Connections] [IP
Statistics] [TCP Statistics] [ICMP Statistics] [UDP Statistics] [Disk System
Wide Reads/Writes Per Second] [Disk System Wide Transfer Rate] [Disk
Reads/Writes Per Second] [Disk Transfer Rate] [Disk Space Percent
Usage] [Physical Memory Usage] [Swap Usage] [Page Ins & Outs
Rate] [Swap Ins & Outs Rate]
Orca on Solaris collects many more metrics than shown above

Strength of Orca is lots of detailed metrics with low overhead for collection

Easily customized to add more system metrics or application metrics

Orca can already track HTTP traffic and parse log files
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All metrics are stored in
“round robin database”
format using RRDtool to
generate displays over
different time spans
Web page is simple collection
of plots with drill down by
metric or by time
Suitable for monitoring a
relatively small number of
systems in great detail, e.g.
backend database servers
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Cacti – www.cacti.net
Web based user interface based on RRDtool

More sophisticated GUI than Orca or MRTG

Less sophisticated system metric collection,

but more coverage of networking
Better management of groups of systems

and devices than Orca, useful for tens to
hundreds of nodes
Access control and personalization for users
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Ganglia – www.ganglia.info
Web based RRDtool GUI somewhat similar to Cacti

Better management of clusters of systems and

devices than Cacti, useful for hundreds to thousands
of nodes in a hierarchy of clusters
Provides many summary statistic plots at cluster

level and collects detailed configuration data
XML based data representation

Uses low overhead network protocol

In common use at hundreds of large HPC Grid sites,

less visibly in use at some large commercial sites
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BigBrother, BigSister, Hobbit/Xymon
Network and system dashboard alert monitor

Widely used at internet sites

Bigbrother is at http://www.bb4.com

Taken over by Quest Inc.
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Bigsister is at http://bigsister.graeff.com

Doesn’t seem to be widely used
–
Hobbit changed its name to Xymon

Xymon is a scalable and efficient open source re-write
–
of BigBrother, compatible with BB collector scripts
Distribution at http://www.xymon.com documentation at
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http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon
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Free QA Test and
Modelling Tools
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QA Test Requirements
Generate test workload

SLAMD, Grinder
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Collect performance metrics

Any of the tools already mentioned
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Report regression against baseline

Predict capacity needed for production system

Use spreadsheets for simple linear prediction
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Use modelling tools such as PDQ for queuing models
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Grinder 3 - Powerful New Features
100% Pure Java - works on any hardware platform and any

operating system that supports J2SE 1.3 and above.
Java and Jython based load testing framework

Web Browsers: simulate web browsers using HTTP, and HTTPS.
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Web Services: test interfaces using SOAP and XML-RPC.
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Database: test databases using JDBC.
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Middleware: RPC and MOM based systems using IIOP, RMI/IIOP,
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RMI/JRMP, and JMS.
Other Internet protocols: POP3, SMTP, FTP, and LDAP.
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See http://grinder.sourceforge.net/g3/features.html

J2EE Performance Testing with BEA WebLogic Server by

Peter Zadrozny, Philip Aston and Ted Osborne, originally
published by Expert Press and now by APress uses Grinder 2
throughout.
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SLAMD
Load generation framework, written in Java

Originally built to test LDAP servers by Sun

Extended to be very generic and published

as open source. Actively being developed.
Sophisticated functions and user interface

See http://www.slamd.com

Latest Release 2.0 has better usability focus
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PDQ Modelling Tool
Dr Neil Gunther’s toolkit at

http://www.perfdynamics.com
Library used from C or Perl provides MVA queueing

models
Use to calibrate in QA and predict in production

PDQ modelling tool details:

The Practical Performance Analyst Dr. Neil Gunther -
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McGraw-Hill, 1998 ISBN 0-07-912946-3
Analyzing Computer System Performance with Perl:PDQ
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2004, ISBN 3-54-020865-8
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R – A Free Statistics Package
http://www.r-project.org

 Runs on any platform
 Compatible with S-PLUS
 Very powerful/nice scripting language
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CHP - “Cockcroft Headroom Plot”
R Based plotting tool (demo)

 Examples importing iostat, vxstat
 Series of articles in CMG Measure-IT
 Blogged at http://perfcap.blogspot.com
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Web Site Behavior

Web Site Headroom

Java App Server Headroom Plot
Mixed Page Weights

Thread-limited appserver

CPU utilization is low

Measurements are of a

single SOA service pool
Response is in

milliseconds
Throughput is executions/s

Exec Resp
Min. : 1.00 Min. : 0.0
1st Qu.: 2.00 1st Qu.: 150.0
Median : 8.00 Median : 361.0
Mean : 64.68 Mean : 533.5
3rd Qu.: 45.00 3rd Qu.: 771.9
Max. :10795.00 Max. :19205.0

Storage Headroom - Reads

Storage Headroom - Reads

References and
Conclusion
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Licences for Free Tools
Open Source Initiative

“OSI Approved licences”
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http://opensource.org/licenses/category
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Comparisons of Common Licences

http://zooko.com/license_quick_ref.html
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Web Pages and Books
Adrian’s Performance and other topics blog
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http://perfcap.blogspot.com
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MFJ Associates performance tools link page
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http://www.mfjassociates.net/perf_links.html
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More free tools compiled by John Sellens
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http://www.generalconcepts.com/resources/monitoring/
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More tools compiled by Openxtra
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http://www.openxtra.co.uk/resource-center/open_source_network_monitor_tools.php
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SE toolkit info: Sun Performance and Tuning - Java and the Internet - Adrian
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Cockcroft and Richard Pettit - Sun Press/Prentice Hall, 2nd Edition, 1998 ISBN 0-13-
095249-4
Solaris 8 and Linux: System Performance Tuning 2nd Edition – Gian-Paolo Musumeci,
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O’Reilly 2002 ISBN: 0-596-00284-X
Solaris Internals http://www.solarisinternals.com
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Richard McDougall and James Mauro - new 2nd edition and new performance book by
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Richard McDougall and Brendan Gregg
May 2, 2009 Adrian Cockcroft and Mario Jauvin

Concluding Remarks
Many large installations depend on free tools
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A full suite of functionality is available
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Several tools are needed to cover the bases
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Tradeoff between function and ease of use
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Support may be available, but typically
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Google is the best support tool
Functionality is increasing….
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May 2, 2009 Adrian Cockcroft and Mario Jauvin

Questions?
acockcroft@netflix.com
mario@mfjassociates.net
Updated presentations
http://www.slideshare.net/adrianco
May 2, 2009 Adrian Cockcroft and Mario Jauvin