Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hy all,
I need to record the topas output command.
For a lots of reasons the only one solution I can use is to execute this command (I've just found topasout and xmwlm -L but I can't use thoose solutions):

(sleep 3, echo q) | topas > logfile

The problem is that I have to execute this command from a remote server.
The output I have is:

Please provide a more specific terminal type than unknown.

Do you have any idea about this?
Do tou know any other way to extract the

% Comp

value of the topas command?

Thank you all!

Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

If you are running the command remotely, you may have some shell.

If you got that command of yours to work (did not work for me on 5.3) then

export TERM=vt100;(sleep 3,echo q)|topas > logfile

Should work. If not, you can add a crontab of your command and just remote access the data written.

Sar is also a standard performance monitoring tool that crosses unix platforms and is easily scripted. Nmon is decent on aix also but I believe is not formally supported.

2¢

Originally posted by: nagger

I think this is a hopeless idea.

topas is a cursors program so the file ends up with all sorts of cursor control characters in it.
This would make picking out the data your really want very hard indeed and possibly different each time you run it

• cursors does not have to output the screen the same way every time.

If you replay the output file like: cat output
then you don't get the pauses so ten minutes recording would flash out on the scree in 1 second.

What is the data you need as I am sure there are other ways to access them?

Programs like nmon that save to a sane format are fully supported - just not by IBM.