> Your mileage may vary.  I prefer the online, on-demand tools, and SOS
> is a good one, particularly the tabular (not graphic) overview, as it
> provides a load average, disc queue lengths, and other important
> information.  But as a disclaimer, I haven't seen Stan's non-MI product
> in action, I'm only comparing Glance/SOS/Sysview.
>
> Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>

One shouldn't forget CIA (Computer I/O Analyser) written by
Neville Silverman, and marketed by Facer (Sydney, Australia).
I've used it for years and find it difficult to imagine how
I could manage a system without it.  Its very gentle on resource
consumption, and provides all of the above, both online and
as a batch job providing graphs and reports (with a neat
facility for downloading daily summary statistics to a PC
and a VB interface for the graphs).

Ron Burnett
[log in to unmask]