Following my last blog post about OSWatcher, I will present in this one OSWatcher Black Box Analyzer (OSWBBA), which is the tool that you can use to display graphically the data collected by OSWBB.
This tool is a Java utility and exists since OSWatcher version 4.0.0. It permits to create graphs and complete HTML reports containing collected OS statistics.  Image1

OSWBBA require no installation. It is embedded in the OSWatcher home directory.
To start the Analyser, run oswbba.jar :
$ java -jar oswbba.jar -i ./archive
Starting OSW Analyzer V7.3.3
OSWatcher Analyzer Written by Oracle Center of Expertise
Copyright (c)  2014 by Oracle Corporation
Parsing Data. Please Wait...
Scanning file headers for version and platform info...
Parsing file srvtestoel7.it.dbi-services.com_iostat_16.07.25.2000.dat
...

The ”–i” parameter indicates the OSWatcher archive directory and is mandatory.
Once launched, the main menu is displayed :
Enter 1 to Display CPU Process Queue Graphs
Enter 2 to Display CPU Utilization Graphs
Enter 3 to Display CPU Other Graphs
Enter 4 to Display Memory Graphs
Enter 5 to Display Disk IO Graphs
Enter 6 to Generate All CPU Gif Files
Enter 7 to Generate All Memory Gif Files
Enter 8 to Generate All Disk Gif Files
Enter L to Specify Alternate Location of Gif Directory
Enter T to Alter Graph Time Scale Only (Does not change analysis dataset)
Enter D to Return to Default Graph Time Scale
Enter R to Remove Currently Displayed Graphs
Enter A to Analyze Data
Enter S to Analyze Subset of Data(Changes analysis dataset including graph time scale)
Enter P to Generate A Profile
Enter X to Export Parsed Data to File
Enter Q to Quit Program

You must enable a X-Windows environment to display graphs.

If you don’t want to go through this menu every time you want to display graph or generate report, you can pass all of the above options to OSWBBA from the command line, for example :
$ java -jar oswbba.jar -i ./archive -4 -P last_crash

  • -i  : Specify the archive directory
  • -4 : Create memory graphs
  • -P : Create a profile called “last_crash”

Other options :

  • -6..8 : Same options as in the menu
  • -L : User specified location to place gif files
  • -A : Create a report
  • -B : Specify the start time to analyze (format Mon DD HH:MM:SS YYYY)
  • -E : Specify the end time to analyze  (format Mon DD HH:MM:SS YYYY)
  • -F : Specify a filename of a text file containing a list of options
    (all others options are ignored if –F is used)

Example :
$ java -jar oswbba.jar -i ./archive -6 -B Sep 23 09:25:00 2016 -E Sep 23 09:30:00 2016
Will start OSWatcher Analyzer with the following parameters :

  • Archive directory : $OSWatcher_HOME/archive
  • Generate all CPU GIF files
  • Time slot : 23 of Septembre 2016 – 09:25:00 to 09:30:00

Generated file :
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It’s also possible to specify in a text file all options you want to use and then run OSWBBA with the “-f” parameter :
$ cat input.txt
-P today_crash -B Sep 23 09:00:00 2016 -E Sep 23 11:00:00 2016
$ java -jar oswbba.jar -i ./archive -F input.txt

This will generate a complete HTML report (called “today_crash”) with all available graphs based on the statistics stored in the archive directory.