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August 8, 2008

kSar Version 5 is a java application that graph your sar data. It can graph sar text output from Solaris,Linux,AIX,HPUX,Mac OS/X. It also permit to export data to PDF/JPG/PNG/CSV. You can load dat from three method : local file, local command excetion, and remote command execution via SSH :)

What's new in V5

November 24, 2008

  • Automatic collect & graph data at startup
  • CSV export
  • Line color can be choosen
  • Can remember of user/password for ssh connection
  • Configuration of shortcut and startup window by XML file
  • Specific graph allow you to compare two graphs value
  • (linux) pidstat output parsing
  • (mac) sar parsing (using a shell script in contrib directory)
  • Less memory usage than Version 4
  • GUI bugs correction

Bug found in Version 5.0.4

  • Load a file show a error on the stdout
  • AIX: kSar had problem with system reconfiguration (eg. LPAR)

Bug found in Version 5.0.2

  • the new format of sysstat wasn't parsed
  • -input needed a absolute path or a relative path with ./
  • there was some problem with huge graph list
  • command line : -showMemStacked wasn't working
  • PDF: graph had some strange font
  • TimeRange wasn't working
  • diskname was not working
  • there was some trouble with linux disk

Feature added in Version 5.0.4

  • Linux : interrupt list is now parsed
  • -input needed a absolute path or a relative path with ./
  • Esar can now be parsed by kSar