vmstat - iostat - nfsstat

[Tom Brown]

> a quick thing would be either install a crontab which does this and 
> archives this information in a common shared location or a quick script 
> which rsh/ssh to the remote machines and runs these commands and stores 
> the output to a meaningful titled files.

yes - i tried all that but the issue was that it would not write to the 
remote filesystem using a cron - not sure why.

In the end i installed dstat and this does everything i need and more 
and using 1 tool rather than 3.

thanks