OCI - How to Enable sysstat – SAR Data Collection

Applies to:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later

Linux x86-64

Oracle Linux 8 and above

Goal:

This document outlines the steps required to setup and enable the sysstat:

sar - Reports information about system activity

Solution:

Make sure that the sysstat package is installed.

$ sudo dnf info sysstat
Installed Packages
Name         : sysstat
Version      : 11.7.3
Release      : 13.0.1.el8_10
Architecture : x86_64
Size         : 1.4 M
Source       : sysstat-11.7.3-13.0.1.el8_10.src.rpm
Repository   : @System
From repo    : ol8_appstream
Summary      : Collection of performance monitoring tools for Linux
URL          : http://sebastien.godard.pagesperso-orange.fr/
License      : GPLv2+
Description  : The sysstat package contains the sar, sadf, mpstat, iostat, tapestat,