SAR (System Activity Report)

[jasonnix]

Hello,
Does anyone have experience with SAR? I installed SAR, then I activated and executed it using the following commands

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# systemctl enable sysstat
#
# systemctl start sysstat

This program created the file /var/log/sysstat/sa21. I want to know if SAR is automatically recording system activities or need to write cron file?

Thank you.

[NorthEast]

If /var/log/sysstat/sa21 is created, and sysstat is enabled in /etc/default/sysstat, and systemctl has enabled and started it, then a command like:

sar -u

would normally show output of the current CPU usage for the current day. If it's not working, the output will say that sysstat can't open the relevant file.