SAR GUI: Export sar / sysstat reports as PDF using kSar

Hello,

If you are Linux Administrator you must know what SAR is, sar is a very useful utility for Linux Administrators to get the report of CPU Usage and You can monitor I/O, CPU Usage, Idle system state using sar utility. This article will help you to read / export sar reports in Graphical mode.

In this HowTo, I will show you how you can export sar reports as PDF / JPG / PNG using kSar tool.

ksar – PDF

In RHEL / CentOS you will find sar reports under /var/log/sa

In Ubuntu / Debian based Linux you will find sar reports under /var/log/sysstat

Perform following steps to export sar report:

1. Make Sure Java is installed on your system to open kSar Utility.

2. Download kSar Utility from below URL

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ksar/

3. Extract / Unzip Downloaded ksar-x-x-x.zip file

root@vikram-linux-ahmedabad:~/Downloads# unzip kSar-5.0.6.zip

4. Give Executable permission to kSar.jar

root@vikram-linux-ahmedabad:~/Downloads/kSar-5.0.6# chmod +x kSar.jar

5. Execute below command to open java file (kSar.jar):

root@vikram-linux-ahmedabad:~/Downloads/kSar-5.0.6# java -jar kSar.jar

6. Now Click on Data -> Load from Text file…

7. Provide Path of sar reports path:

For RHEL: /var/log/sa/sarXX

For Debian/Ubuntu: /var/log/sysstat/sarXX

8. Select “Export to PDF / JPG / PNG” from Data  To Export sar report as PDF / JPG / PNG