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1 2 3 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">1.2. SystemTap Capabilities</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="Common_Content/css/default.css" /><link rel="stylesheet" media="print" href="Common_Content/css/print.css" type="text/css" /><meta xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" name="generator" content="not publican" /><meta xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" name="package" content="" /><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="SystemTap Beginners Guide" /><link rel="up" href="introduction.html" title="Chapter 1. Introduction" /><link rel="prev" href="introduction.html" title="Chapter 1. Introduction" /><link rel="next" href="intro-systemtap-limitations.html" title="1.3. Limitations of SystemTap" /></head><body><p id="title"></p><ul class="docnav top"><li class="previous"><a accesskey="p" href="introduction.html"><strong>Prev</strong></a></li><li class="home">SystemTap Beginners Guide</li><li class="next"><a accesskey="n" href="intro-systemtap-limitations.html"><strong>Next</strong></a></li></ul><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a id="intro-systemtap-vs-others"> </a>1.2. SystemTap Capabilities</h2></div></div></div><a id="idp71893879381056" class="indexterm"></a><a id="idp71893879382528" class="indexterm"></a><div xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" class="itemizedlist"><ul><li class="listitem"><div class="para"><span class="strong strong"><strong>Flexibility:</strong></span> SystemTap's framework allows users to develop simple scripts for investigating and monitoring a wide variety of kernel functions, system calls, and other events that occur in kernel space. As a result, SystemTap is not so much a <span class="emphasis"><em>tool</em></span> as it is a system that allows you to develop your own kernel-specific forensic and monitoring tools.</div></li><li class="listitem"><div class="para"><span class="strong strong"><strong>Ease of use</strong></span>: as mentioned earlier, SystemTap allows users to probe kernel-space events without having to resort to instrument, recompile, install, and reboot the kernel.</div></li></ul></div><div class="para">Most of the SystemTap scripts enumerated in <a class="xref" href="useful-systemtap-scripts.html">Chapter 5, <em>Useful SystemTap Scripts</em></a> demonstrate system forensics and monitoring capabilities not natively available with other similar tools (such as <code class="command">top</code>, <code class="command">oprofile</code>, or <code class="command">ps</code>). These scripts are provided to give readers extensive examples of the application of SystemTap and to educate them further on the capabilities they can employ when writing their own SystemTap scripts.</div></div><ul class="docnav"><li class="previous"><a accesskey="p" href="introduction.html"><strong>Prev</strong>Chapter 1. Introduction</a></li><li class="up"><a accesskey="u" href="#"><strong>Up</strong></a></li><li class="home"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html"><strong>Home</strong></a></li><li class="next"><a accesskey="n" href="intro-systemtap-limitations.html"><strong>Next</strong>1.3. Limitations of SystemTap</a></li></ul></body></html>
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