[CentOS] Monitoring IO -- vmstat doesn't match snmp

[David Dyer-Bennet]

On Mon, November 7, 2011 11:51, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:23 PM, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b at dd-b.net> wrote:
>> I made the mistake of looking at disk IO numbers in two different ways
>> --
>> now I'm confused, because they give inconsistent answers.
>>
>> First way was using 'vmstat 10'.  This gave me (apologies for wrapped
>> lines):
>>
>
> BTW, did you try:
> 1. monitor command
> 2. Zabbix -- well, It may require upgrade of PHP and whatnot.

No, I haven't.  I view my problem as being TOO MANY different sources to
begin with :-).

Sounds like zabbix is out -- no PHP or Web server on the system involved,
and I can't install one (in-service production box).

I've never heard of a "monitor" command for unix, and there isn't one on
this Centos installation.  I'm open to persuasion here.  And I haven't
looked into whether this info is directly accessible in the proc
filesystem or something yet either.
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