Testcase 05 ----------- It's been found that sometimes onlining and offlining CPUs confuse some of the various system tools. We found that sar wouldn't register the change in newly available cpus that weren't there when it started. This test case seeks to exercise this known error cases and verify that they behave correctly now. Algorithm - Sar =============== Given a CPU to test that exists Make sure the specified cpu is offline Loop until done: Start up sar writing to a temp log and give it a little time to run Verify that SAR has correctly displayed all fields of CPU statistics as '0.00' for the offlined CPU or just not displayed it in its tmp log Online the specified cpu Take another timestamp and another count of offlined CPUs Verify SAR registered the change in CPU online/offline states When exiting: Kill the sar process