Enabling SAR in Solaris 10

Edit the sys crontab and uncomment the following lines:

0 * * * 0-6 /usr/lib/sa/sa1

20,40 8-17 * * 1-5 /usr/lib/sa/sa1

5 18 * * 1-5 /usr/lib/sa/sa2 -s 8:00 -e 18:01 -i 1200 -A


Enable the SAR facility.

# svcadm enable sar


Verify the facility is enabled.

# svcs sar

STATE STIME FMRI
online Nov_27 svc:/system/sar:default