AIX system monitoring tool

Features

• Displays the system performance of an AIX system in a terminal window

  Example:

  AIX System monitor v2.2.1pre0 23jan2001: sirius Wed Feb 21 20:57:35 2001 Uptime: 0 days, 01:39 Users: 0 of 1 active 1 remote 81:31 sleep time CPU: User 16.8% Sys 11.2% Wait 11.5% Idle 60.6% Refresh: 3.39 s 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% >>>>>>>>>>>>========-------- Runnable (Swap-in) processes 0.29 (0.00) load average: 0.45, 0.38, 0.39 Memory Real Virtual Paging (4kB) Process events File/TTY-IO free 0 MB 241 MB 32.7 pgfaults 518 pswitch 0 iget procs 174 MB 22 MB 5.3 pgin 1819 syscall 41 namei files 81 MB 30.6 pgout 334 read 0 dirblk total 256 MB 264 MB 0.0 pgsin 178 write 43874 readch IO (kB/s) read write busy% 30.6 pgsout 0 fork 108505 writech hdisk0 21.2 122.5 13 0 exec 0 ttyrawch hdisk1 0.0 0.0 0 Client Server NFS/s 0 rcvint 0 ttycanch hdisk2 0.0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 calls 0 xmtint 228 ttyoutch cd0 0.0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 retry 0 mdmint cd1 0.0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 getattr 0.0 0.0 lookup Netw read write kB/s 0.0 0.0 read lo0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 write en0 16.1 117.3 0.0 0.0 other

• Writes a logfile (ascii text) with collected performance information

  Sample file:

  interval sirius 10 18:09:54 18:10:00 Sat 27 01 2001 Jan 6 03 10 cpubusy 2.3 0.0 0.5 97.1 runque 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 swapin 0.00 0.00 users 7 2 7 82323 1 0 1 6856 uptime 72141 devread 0.00 0.00 0.00 devwrite 0.00 0.00 0.00 loadaverage 0.22 0.17 0.15 realmem 256 128 0 73 201 0 201 0 virtualmem 256 174 0 vmpaging 57.6 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 vmios 0.0 0.0 11.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 vmpongs 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 pswitch 64.9

• Writes collected performance data to a collection og rrdtool files

  The collected data can be reviewed later:

  This feature is built on RRDtool.

History

Monitor was originally developend by Jussi Mäki form Finnland.

Later Marcel Mol from the Netherlands added the ascii file logging support and adapter monitor to work with newer releases of AIX.

Markus Bärtschi for Switzerland then added support for rrdtool files and set up the sourceforge site.

See:

Contacts

Jussi Mäki: jussi.maki@iki.fijmaki@csc.fi (Both addresses seem to bounce, though), http://www.csc.fi/~jmaki/

Marcel Mol: marcel@mesa.nl

Markus Bärtschi: markus@markus.org, www.markus.org