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Mr. K.V.B.L.
Oct 16, 2013, 10:11:34 AM10/16/13
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When it comes to a Unix-ish system, I can do the basics of getting a report of where disk usage is. How do you do this on the QSYS side? I'd like to email myself a quick daily report of what the disk usage is on QSYS and IFS so I can track a general trend over time, so something that I can dump to a text file and just have a scheduled job email to me.
Jonathan Bailey
Oct 16, 2013, 12:04:53 PM10/16/13
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On Wednesday, 16 October 2013 15:11:34 UTC+1, Mr. K.V.B.L. wrote:
> When it comes to a Unix-ish system, I can do the basics of getting a report of where disk usage is. How do you do this on the QSYS side? I'd like to email myself a quick daily report of what the disk usage is on QSYS and IFS so I can track a general trend over time, so something that I can dump to a text file and just have a scheduled job email to me.
You could just dspsyssts *print then email.
> When it comes to a Unix-ish system, I can do the basics of getting a report of where disk usage is. How do you do this on the QSYS side? I'd like to email myself a quick daily report of what the disk usage is on QSYS and IFS so I can track a general trend over time, so something that I can dump to a text file and just have a scheduled job email to me.
You can collect more detailed disk data with RTVDSKINF which is often already added into the job scheduler, and print it with prtdskinf, then email the results of that. There is also the graph history data which you can see in navigator, but I am at a loss why I cant remove some old data from my system or why it sometimes has a couple of months missing. Its not creating the summary data at the moment.
CRPence
Oct 16, 2013, 2:22:12 PM10/16/13
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On 16 Oct 2013 09:04, Jonathan Bailey wrote:
> <<SNIP>> There is also the graph history data which you can see in
> navigator, but I am at a loss why I can't remove some old data from
> my system or why it sometimes has a couple of months missing. It's
influenced by the performance data collection(s). The following topic
was found in InfoCenter searching on: navigator graph history
IBM i 7.1 Information Center -> Systems management -> Performance ->
Applications for performance management -> Viewing and analyzing data ->
System i Navigator -> Graph history
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/topic/rzahx/rzahxgrphcon.htm
_i Graph history concepts i_
"Contains a description of the available options for managing and
displaying records of performance data.
Graph history displays data contained in the collection objects created
by Collection Services. Therefore, the type and amount of data available
is dependent on your Collection Services configuration.
The amount of data that is available to be graphed is determined by the
settings that you selected from the Collection Services properties,
specifically the collection retention period. Use System i® Navigator to
activate Performance Management Agent (PM Agent) over multiple systems.
When you activate PM Agent, you can use the graph history function to
see data that was collected days ago, weeks ago, or months ago. You go
beyond the realtime monitor capabilities, and have access to summary or
detailed data. Without PM Agent enabled, the graph data field supports 1
to 7 days. With PM Agent enabled, you define how long your management
collection objects remain on the system:
..."
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Regards, Chuck
> <<SNIP>> There is also the graph history data which you can see in
> navigator, but I am at a loss why I can't remove some old data from
> my system or why it sometimes has a couple of months missing. It's
> not creating the summary data at the moment.
That information is AFaIK from the Performance Tools, and thus
influenced by the performance data collection(s). The following topic
was found in InfoCenter searching on: navigator graph history
IBM i 7.1 Information Center -> Systems management -> Performance ->
Applications for performance management -> Viewing and analyzing data ->
System i Navigator -> Graph history
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/topic/rzahx/rzahxgrphcon.htm
_i Graph history concepts i_
"Contains a description of the available options for managing and
displaying records of performance data.
Graph history displays data contained in the collection objects created
by Collection Services. Therefore, the type and amount of data available
is dependent on your Collection Services configuration.
The amount of data that is available to be graphed is determined by the
settings that you selected from the Collection Services properties,
specifically the collection retention period. Use System i® Navigator to
activate Performance Management Agent (PM Agent) over multiple systems.
When you activate PM Agent, you can use the graph history function to
see data that was collected days ago, weeks ago, or months ago. You go
beyond the realtime monitor capabilities, and have access to summary or
detailed data. Without PM Agent enabled, the graph data field supports 1
to 7 days. With PM Agent enabled, you define how long your management
collection objects remain on the system:
..."
--
Regards, Chuck
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