Specifications
- Standard agent: yes
- Monitoring Parameters: 16
- Data Source: /proc, process information pseudo-filesystem
- API: Sys::Statistics::Linux
- Programming Language: Perl 5
Functions
Records inventory data from a Linux 32 or 64bit kernel. The agent requires a minimum version of Linux kernel 2.6 version. The recorder uses Sys::Statistics::Linux, a Perl based module which handles data collection from proc interface. The recorder outputs collected data as sdrd, sdr raw data format.
Parameters
hdwrec records computer inventory information: number of physical and virtual CPUs, total physical memory installed, operating system name and release, kernel patch level, number of JVMs running, the uptime of the system.
| id | name | type | description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | timestamp | time | seconds since Epoch |
| 2 | hostname | hostname | host name, string |
| 3 | platform | string | name of the hardware platform |
| 4 | hypervisor | string | name of the hypervisor |
| 5 | os | string | name of the operating system |
| 6 | codename | string | codename of the operating system |
| 7 | distributor | string | name of the operating system distributor |
| 8 | kernel | string | kernel version and release number |
| 9 | pcpu | number | number of physical installed CPUs |
| 10 | vcpu | number | number of virtual CPUs |
| 11 | memtotal | number | total physical memory installed |
| 12 | swaptotal | number | total physical swap installed |
| 13 | disks | number | total number of disks |
| 14 | nics | number | total number of NICS |
| 15 | jvms | number | total number of running JVMs |
| 16 | uptime | number | how long the system has been running |