Summary for Patch 967 (Verified)

Summary	Client patch for free memory reported as KB by SAR
Platform	Unix
Category	bugfix
Valid for	6.2.x, 6.3.x
Requires	6.2.0.7 - 6.2.0.11: 810
Server Required Patch/es
Supersedes	881, 797, 743
Superseded by	2058 : Verified / Not hidden
Affects	Client: System Analyzer
Last Updated	March 16, 2015

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Description

The free memory was previously reported as "memory pages" by SAR. It has been changed to KB. This is
the client update needed for Solaris clients in this respect. It updates sar_to_psm and SAR.pm.

The patch also contains an update to fix the client daemon that caused a possible loss of data as a
result of PID rotation. This applies to all platforms. Client.pm is updated for this fix.

Patch 966 is the corresponding server patch.

Supersedes Patch Description

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Patch 881 — Linux sar with support for rq-size and iowait%

Adds use of sar -q to get "rq-size" (Run queue size) on Linux.

Adds "Wait IO %" on Linux.

Both are measurements.

Fixes a bug in parsing that caused the time stamp of the sar logs to be delayed
by one sar interval.

Patch 797 — Error handling for pacct, support for sar version 9

pacct_to_psm is now allowed to complete processing of a pacct file that contains more faulty
records. Earlier, the process would be aborted after a certain number of such records. The error
checking can be turned on / off by setting a directive in /etc/opt/openit/openit.cfg:

PACCT_CHECK_ERROR (on|off)

If the directive is not present, the default behavior is as before, "on".

sar has been extended to handle version 9 of the sysstat package.

Patch 743 — Avoid use of ypcat (configurable)

Update on the module that converts UID to user name. Us of "ypcat" can be turned on or off by
setting in /etc/opt/openit/openit.cfg:

UID_YPCAT   (true|false)

The default is to use "ypcat".

Installation

Unpack tar file in e.g /tmp/patch on the Open iT host. Do the following as root:

	cd /tmp/patch
	./patch.pl

Corresponding Windows Patches

No corresponding Patches available.

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