Sar installation

One line command for installation and basic configuration for collecting :

• Debian/Ubuntu:

apt -y install sysstat; sed -i 's/ENABLED="false"/ENABLED="true"/g' /etc/default/sysstat && service sysstat restart && sar

Optionally modify collection interval in: /etc/cron.d/sysstat

Optionally modify collection options in (SADC_OPTIONS="-S XALL"): /etc/sysstat/sysstat (man sadc)

• Red Hat/Fedora/Oracle Linux/AWS AMI:

yum -y install sysstat && service sysstat start

Installing sar Debian, you have to install sysstat package that includes sar and some other performance tools:

• apt -y install sysstat
• Checking installation: dpkg -l sysstat
• Binaries installed in /usr/bin/ directory: dpkg -L sysstat | grep "/usr/bin". Sysstat package contains sar and some other utilities.
• Installing sysstat using Ansible