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The Sysstat Suite of Resource Monitoring Tools

Sysstat is a sophisticated tool.

Sysstat contains the following tools related to collecting I/O and CPU statistics:

iostat
Displays an overview of CPU utilization, along with I/O statistics for one or more disk drives.

mpstat
Displays more in-depth CPU statistics.
Sysstat also contains tools that collect system resource utilization data and create daily reports based on that data.

These tools are:

sadc
Known as the system activity data collector, sadc collects system resource utilization information and writes it to a file.

sar
Producing reports from the files created by sadc, sar reports can be generated interactively or written to a file for more intensive analysis.

Monitoring Connections to Plesk Control Panel

To find out who of your customers is logged in to the control panel at the moment:

Go to Home > Active Sessions (in the Security group). All sessions including yours will be presented and the following details will be displayed:

A type of control panel user who established the session: administrator, reseller or client, Web site owner, mailuser for mailbox owner.

Login. The login name the user is logged in as.
IP address. The IP address from which the control panel is accessed.
Logon time. The date and time when the user logged in to the control panel.
Idle time. The time that user was not doing anything in the control panel while being logged in.

To refresh the list of user sessions, click Refresh.
To end a user session, select the respective check box and click Remove, then confirm removal and click OK.

The Sysstat Suite of Resource Monitoring Tools

Sysstat contains the following tools related to collecting I/O and CPU statistics:

iostat
Displays an overview of CPU utilization, along with I/O statistics for one or more disk drives.

mpstat
Displays more in-depth CPU statistics.

Sysstat also contains tools that collect system resource utilization data and create daily reports based on that data. These tools are:

sadc
Known as the system activity data collector, sadc collects system resource utilization information and writes it to a file.

sar
Producing reports from the files created by sadc, sar reports can be generated interactively or written to a file for more intensive analysis.