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2016-01-26 8:43 GMT+02:00 Robert Ãkerblom-Andersson <notifications@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi @kmcdonell, thanks for the input. > > I understand the FreeBSD support background better now. I got stuck when I > could not figure out how to install sadf, the systat command is part of the > core OS I believe and I can not find any package called systat to installed > (the systat command does work). You can see the output below. I assume "QA > optional" packages are not needed, the warnings, well I guess those are not > critical. /etc/hosts and pcp user I could fix, for the conf file > /etc/pcp.conf error, is an empty file okay or do I need some proper conf to > compile? The initialize policy plugin I'm not sure what it means. > > Missing: sadf [sysstat] > Missing: socat [(QA optional)] > Missing: avahi-browse [avahi-tools or avahi-utils (QA optional)] > Missing: valgrind [(QA optional)] > Warning: Package libmicrohttpd not known to pkg-config , need > 0.9.9 > Warning: Package cairo not known to pkg-config , need >= 1.2 > Warning: Package cairo-ft not known to pkg-config , need >= 1.2 > Warning: Package cairo-png not known to pkg-config , need >= 1.2 > No /etc/hosts entry for XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX > Warning: "/etc/pcp.conf" is missing > sudo: unknown user: pcp > sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin > Error: /home/robert is not searchable by user "pcp" > > Do you have some script you use to setup the FreeBSD servers or do you > install required packages manually? > > As far as packaging goes I don't think that has been FreeBSD strongest suit > historically, however recently (the last few years) a new more "modern" > package manager has been introduced called "pkgng", I think it works quite > good, on newer systems it's executable is just called just pkg. I install > most thing with pkg install [packageName]. I have yet to create any packages > myself so far but I think it should not be too hard, it's documented here. I > do have some experience of creating startup rc scripts though, to integrate > with the service XXX start/stop/restart commands, it is very easy to do. > > Locally on the server I use these tools today zfs-stat (it's a script > fetching zfs data) and the continuous output from this command zpool iostat > -v 1. The NFS command nfsstat gives lots of NFS stats, it has helped me in > the past so that's my main tool for NFS stats. > > If I could get pcp running on my own that would of course be the best > solution, but I would appreciate you taking the time to send an email as > well. You could send the stats for FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE if you get some time > over for that, robert at dartvoid.com is my work address, it would be > interesting to see the output. > I've just put together a simple port of the current pcp snapshot (cf5e23a93d88420bca29b5be206b800845e55546) for FreeBSD, you can see if it fits your needs (attached). Since the port is based on a snapshot, I had to make some bugfixes and portability fixes in it, which I otherwise would upstream. If it works, we might just post it to FreeBSD Ports. -- Markiyan. > â > Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub. — |