SUMMARY: SAR log analysis

Thanks to:

Paul Teasdel
Martin Hepworth
Bertrand Hutin
Mike Ekholm

Bertrand sent some Perl scripts to do extraction and insertion into a French
spreadsheet.
Paul suggested x-sarte: http://www.x-sarte.com/ and sarge:
http://www.vais.net/~efinch/sarge.html. X-sarte looked great, but I could
not get it to work with several hours of playing with it. V1.0 is free, but
V2.0+ is US $29.95.
Martin also suggested sarge and perfgraph:
http://www.sysman.nl/software/perfgraph/. Perfgraph looks like x-sarte, but
it costs US $1,495.

Unfortunately, none of the solutions worked for me, either too expensive or
just plain didn't work. Thanks for your responses. Original message below.

Tom

> Hello,
> 
> We have some production machines that have SAR logfiles saved for 1 year
at
> a time. Recently management has asked for us to take some of this old data
> and create graphs of it. I don't want to have to run sar on the old files
> and enter the data in by hand to a spreadsheet (e.g. "sar -f mar03 -u -s
> 07:00:00 -e 18:00:00 | mailx -s SAR me"), and I'm pretty sure that someone
> else has needed to do this before.
> 
> Is there an application that will read native SAR logs, pull out relevant
> data and generate graphs of the data viewable offline? I know I can use
> "sag" but that won't really help us (I can't ask management to log in,
open
> an xterm and run an arcane command).
> 
> Thanks, and I will summarize.
> Tom