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This automation covered:

• CPU Usage
• Memory utilization
• Disk utilization
• Log size
• System up time since the last reboot
• Packet sent
• Packet received
• Bytes sent
• Bytes received

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Prerequisite to run this automation is pip and psutil-library packages installed on your host machine. Follow below steps for the installation of required packages and copy the stats.py script to your BPO-host machine.

Install pip

Install Pip with Curl and Python

Pip is part of Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL), which is a community repository of non-standard packages for the RHEL distribution.

$ curl "https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py" -o "get-pip.py"
$ python get-pip.py

Verify The Installation

View a list of helpful commands

$ pip --help

check the version of pip you installed

$ pip -V

psutil

psutil (python system and process utilities) is a cross-platform library for retrieving information on running processes and system utilization (CPU, memory, disks, network, sensors) in Python. It is useful mainly for system monitoring, profiling, limiting process resources and the management of running processes. It implements many functionalities offered by command line tools such as: ps, top, lsof, netstat, ifconfig, who, df, kill, free, nice, ionice, iostat, iotop, uptime, pidof, tty, taskset, pmap.

Install

The easiest way to install psutil is with pip

RedHat / CentOS

$ sudo yum install gcc python-devel python-pip -y
$ pip install psutil

Ubuntu / Debian

$ sudo apt-get install gcc python-dev python-pip
$ pip install psutil