Article Number | 000031810 |
Applies To | RSA Product Set: Security Analytics RSA Product/Service Type: Decoder, Log Decoder, Concentrator, Broker, Archiver, Event Stream Analysis (ESA), Malware Analysis, Security Analytics Server RSA Version/Condition: All Versions Platform: CentOS O/S Version: EL5, EL6 |
Issue | - Some processes cause a memory leak.
- Degraded performance due to lack of memory.
- Degraded performance because memory is drained by one major parent process.
- CPU is over utilized.
- Hard disk is filling up with large files.
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Tasks | To use the serv_mon.sh script (attached to this article), perform the steps below.
- Copy the serv_mon.sh file to your server machine using scp.
- Login to the appliance as the root user, make the script executable, and execute the script as shown below..
chmod +x serv_mon.sh ./serv_mon.sh NOTE: This script must be executed as the root user and Python 2.x or later must be installed on the appliance. |
Notes | This script prints a human readable table with the collective memory utilization for each parent process separately, and performs the following:
- It shows info about CPU, CPU utilization.
- It shows disk space usage for each partition, the largest 10 files on the system.
- It collects /proc/meminfo.
- It collects the output of the vmstat command.
- It watches free –m according to a user specified time interval.



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