SA2(8)                                 Linux User's Manual                                 SA2(8)



NAME
       sa2 - Create a report from the current standard system activity daily data file.

SYNOPSIS
       /usr/lib/sysstat/sa2

DESCRIPTION
       The  sa2  command  is  a  shell  procedure variant of the sar command which writes a daily
       report in the sarDD or the sarYYYYMMDD file, where YYYY stands for the  current  year,  MM
       for  the  current month and DD for the current day.  By default the report is saved in the
       /var/log/sysstat directory.  The sa2 command will also remove reports more than  one  week
       old  by  default.  You can however keep reports for a longer (or a shorter) period by set‐
       ting the HISTORY environment variable. Read the sysstat(5) manual page for details.

       The sa2 command accepts most of the flags and parameters of the sar command.

       The sa2 command is designed to be started automatically by the cron command.


EXAMPLES
       To run the sa2 command daily, place the following entry in your root crontab file:

       5 19 * * 1-5 /usr/lib/sysstat/sa2 -A &

       This will generate by default a daily report called sarDD in the  /var/log/sysstat  direc‐
       tory, where the DD parameter is a number representing the day of the month.

   Debian note
       The  Debian  sysstat  package  has  already  placed  such an entry in your system crontab.
       Please refer to the /usr/share/doc/sysstat/README.Debian file for details.

FILES
       /var/log/sysstat/sarDD
       /var/log/sysstat/sarYYYYMMDD
              The standard system activity daily report files and their default  location.   YYYY
              stands for the current year, MM for the current month and DD for the current day.

AUTHOR
       Sebastien Godard (sysstat <at> orange.fr)

SEE ALSO
       sar(1), sadc(8), sa1(8), sadf(1), sysstat(5)

       http://pagesperso-orange.fr/sebastien.godard/



Linux                                       JUNE 2014                                      SA2(8)