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Asked: 2012-05-12 07:32:28 +0800 CST

Monitoring memory (sharedm buffered, cached) for Xserve

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I am trying to monitor detailed memory useage over time for MacOSX /Xserver. NetSNMP version 5.4.2.1 on MacOS 10.6 does not report the following mibs

 oid=".1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4.11"  alias="memTotalFree" type="integer"
 oid=".1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4.13" alias="memShared"    type="integer" 
 oid=".1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4.14"  alias="memBuffer"    type="integer"
 oid=".1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4.15" alias="memCached"    type="integer"

This means that I cannot use NetSNMP to monitor memory effectively. If I can get these stats from some command line utility then they can be exposed to SNMP and I can collect them easily, but I don't see any low level MacOS specific command line tools for reading these statistics.

I would appreciate if you can recommend any tool or collector which would help me store memory statitics for MacOS/XServe for a longer period of time.

mac-osx-server monitoring snmp performance-monitoring xserve

1 Answers

  1. Check out this article here, I think you'll find what you need in there.

    http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2007/12/a_primer_to_snmp_on_mac_os_x_1.html

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