Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Administering a System: Managing Printers, Software, and Performance
Managing System Performance
Chapter 7 737
• “SAM” on page 737
• “The top Command” on page 737
• “OpenView Products” on page 738
• “Kernel Resource Monitor (KRM)” on page 739
HP also provides several sources for tools and support for HP-UX. See
http://www.software.hp.com. This web page has links to:
• HP-UX 3rd party and public domain software
This catalog contains over 1000 packages in binary and source
format. Each package is placed into a single category on the archive.
These categories can be viewed in alphabetical or chronological order.
• HP-UX application demos, shareware, and freeware
• HP patches
• On-demand support
SAM
The System Administration Manager (SAM) tool allows you to perform
many system administration tasks without having to know all the
HP-UX commands involved. In fact, SAM provides a good means of
learning the HP-UX commands needed for a given task - it records its
actions, including the HP-UX commands it has used, in a log, which you
can look at by pulling down the Options menu on any SAM screen.
For more information on SAM’s capabilities, use SAM’s online help or see
the manpage sam (1M). See also “Using System Administration Manager
(SAM)” on page 141.
To start SAM, enter:
/usr/sbin/sam
The top Command
Use the top command to see processes ranked by CPU usage. See the
manpage top (1).
To run top, enter:
/usr/bin/top