dim_STAT 8.3

Major Features:

1. Web based interface
2. Data storage in a SQL database
3. Several data views
4. Interactive (Java) or static (PNG) graphs
5. Real-time monitoring
6. Multi-host monitoring
7. Post analyzing
8. Statistics integration
9. Professional reporting with automated features, and more.

Enhancements: Jul.2009

• Fixes :
• • security issue on STAT-service!!
  • execution dim_STAT CLI from the web services
  • fixed LANG=C and LC_ALL=C via the main STAT-service script
• Improvements :
• • Optional Admin password may be given on a database creation and then it'll be required for any admin action!
  • Database error messages are now handled separately from LOG messages
  • Java WebDRAW Applet updated
  • add color LEDs near hostnames to signal running or stopped hosts
  • add #Records column to have an idea about a number of database rows per collect
  • Admin LOG management is working more friendly now with a long lists of messages
    
  • STAT-service daemon may listen exclusively on a given IP address now [IP:port]
  • Whole database backup is added to the Admin menu
• Database schema :
• • iostat disk names are moved to varchar(64)
  • all float values are moved to float(25,5) to have an easily human reading
  • Add-On name limit is 14 characters now
• Report Tool :
• • wiki-like syntax is added to simplify writing!
  • look & feel updated
  • some minor fixes here & there
• EasySTAT additional options :
• • COMPRESS=gzip (to automatically compress each output file)
  • TIMER=yes (automatically adding timestamps and sync tags within output files)
• New Add-Ons :
• • HAR v2 (CPU chip counters, ex. mips, cache miss, etc.)
  • Solaris CPU-Set STAT (mpstat -a)
  • Linux MPSTAT v2
  • MySQL STAT
  • InnoDB STAT
  • InnoDB I/O STAT (adoption of Neel's DTrace script )
  • PgSQL STAT (PostgreSQL stats)
  • ZoneLOAD: zoneid => zonename