can we View the contents of the atop log files that sent from remote machine on local machine on remote machine we have the following atop files ls -l /var/log/atop/ total 1634632 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 127992086 Aug 30 01:49 atop_20180829 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262277153 Aug 31 00:00 atop_20180830 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 321592670 Sep 1 00:00 atop_20180831 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 330041977 Sep 2 00:00 atop_20180901 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 269040388 Sep 3 00:00 atop_20180902 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 274807097 Sep 4 00:00 atop_20180903 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 85426960 Sep 4 06:03 atop_20180904 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 4 06:03 daily.log we get the log - atop_20180904 and we want to put it on our local machine under /var/log/atop can we test it ( view the log ) as: atop -r /var/log/atop/atop_20180904 inspite this log created on other machine ?

You can certainly view the imported `atop` log file on another machine that runs `atop` as `atop` run it's own binary format and each file is a self-contained statistics repository/DB on its own.

You may also see it directly from a remote machine doing:


ssh remote_machine "sudo atop -r /var/log/atop/atop_20180904"


Ultimately if you want to monitor on the log term several Unix servers, it might be more practical on the term to monitor them via SNMP with something as Cacti.