AIX performance monitoring tool

Hon Wai Wong

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Oct 26, 1998, 3:00:00 AM10/26/98

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Hi all:

According to the book AIX Version 4 System and Administration Guide by
James Deroest (Published by McGraw-Hill)

, page 540), there are a few AIX monitoring and tuning tools that bundle
with AIX.

Among them are bos.perf.diag_tool, /usr/sbin/perf/diag_tool and
perfangent.tools.

I only manage to find bos.perf.diag_tool in my AIX 4.2 CD.

Do I missed out anything? Or what is the good tool tomonitor system
peformance.

In my AIX CD, I couldn't find rmss that suppose to bundled together.

Any pointers are welcome.

TIA.

HW Wong

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Oct 26, 1998, 3:00:00 AM10/26/98

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In article <482566A9.0...@mailsrv1.pg.hhits.com>,

Hi Hon Wai Wong,
The performance toolbox which is not shipped for free with AIX 4.1 you will
find several tools to monitor AIX system performance, like filemon, svmon,
netpmon and other tools.
I think that rmss is also within the toolbox.
The filesets name is perfagent.tools.
If you like to see graphs you will also need performance manager on a server.
Then you can monitor through the network machine which has the monitor agent
installed.
Does this answer your question ?
Brenzef

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Oct 27, 1998, 3:00:00 AM10/27/98

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In article <482566A9.0...@mailsrv1.pg.hhits.com>,
hww...@hhits.com (Hon Wai Wong) wrote:

> According to the book AIX Version 4 System and Administration Guide by
> James Deroest (Published by McGraw-Hill)
> , page 540), there are a few AIX monitoring and tuning tools that bundle
> with AIX.
>
> Among them are bos.perf.diag_tool, /usr/sbin/perf/diag_tool and
> perfangent.tools.
>
> I only manage to find bos.perf.diag_tool in my AIX 4.2 CD.
>
> Do I missed out anything? Or what is the good tool tomonitor system
> peformance.
>
> In my AIX CD, I couldn't find rmss that suppose to bundled together.

As I can remeber, in 3.2.5 and 4.1 they were released with the Aix CD

In 4.2 these tools were unfortunately packaged into "Performance
Toolbox" which is not a free bundle...

In 4.3 they change their mind and they have released them for free

IMHO, if you just want a simple tool for system monitoring, try
"monitor" from Jussi Maki, ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/unix/AIX/RS6000/

Tom Smith

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Oct 27, 1998, 3:00:00 AM10/27/98

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Check out the archive of smitty-installable freeware at
http://www.bull.de. Click on Freeware/Shareware on the main page and go
from there.

HTH,

Tom

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Randy Nash

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Oct 29, 1998, 3:00:00 AM10/29/98

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Do you knoww if this monitor will work with version 5 of AIX?

Thanks,
Randy Nash
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Richard Payne

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Oct 29, 1998, 3:00:00 AM10/29/98

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What? Version 5 of AIX? Do you know something the rest of use
don't? Did you mean 4.1.5?

a very confused Rich Payne
(Speaking for myself, not my employer)
payner at timken dot com

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Randy Nash

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Oct 29, 1998, 3:00:00 AM10/29/98

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Yes, vesion 4.1.5 that's what I meant.

A very exhausted Netview 6000 5 admin....
Randy