Issued:

2015-07-22

Updated:

2015-07-22

RHEA-2015:1290 - dstat enhancement update

Synopsis

dstat enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An updated dstat package that adds one enhancement is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The dstat package provides a replacement for the vmstat, iostat, and netstat tools. The dstat tool can be used for performance tuning tests, benchmarks, and troubleshooting.

This update adds the following enhancement:

• The dstat utility has been enhanced to support the use of symbolic links as its parameters. This allows users to dynamically specify the boot device name, which ensures that dstat displays correct information after hot plugs and similar operations. (BZ#766443)

Users of dstat are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which adds this enhancement.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• dstat-0.7.0-2.el6.noarch.rpm
• dstat-0.7.0-2.el6.src.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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