SirMon Capture Features

This page is a demonstration of how the historical data, captured by SirMon can be displayed and manipulated.

The graphs in this demo are generated using Vector Markup Language (VML), which is supported by Microsoft Internet Explorer, verion 5.5 and later. VML allows very precise line drawing and is an excellent, lightweight approach to client-side graphing, for shops that have standardized on IE.

To see the graphs, click on the "Graph" link for a particular SirMon sample, then select the statistics you'd like to see graphed.

The code for downloading the data into Excel and XML, and the code for deleting entries, has been disabled in this demo version. You can easily re-enable these features in the downloadable version.

SirMon stores the captured data in file MONDATA -- an optional file in version 6.2 and later (6.5 and later of the Sirius Mods). The command that initiates the capture is

Where xxxx is the number of seconds between sampling intervals, and yyyy is the number of intervals to capture. For instance,

Would capture a sample every 2 minutes (120 seconds) for 10 hours.

Note that the SIRMON CAPTURE command runs in the thread that executes it, so if it's run on a terminal it will lock up the terminal. The suggested method of running the CAPTURE utility is to submit it to a background sdaemon like this:

Each captured sample saves the stats displayed on the SirMon System Overview Screen (SIRMON 1).