topic Re: HPUX disk write statistics in Operating System - HP-UX

HPUX disk write statistics

eran borovik — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 05:58:31 GMT

Hi,
I would like to get a per disk write statistics for HPUX. sar and iostat gives me either read+write bandwidth, or numbers that pertain to the entire system and not to a specific disk.
Is there a way to do it in hpux other than vxstat that is helpful only for VXVM disks?

Thanks,
Eran.

Re: HPUX disk write statistics

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 06:15:34 GMT

Shalom,

netstat -i
iostat

http://www.hpux.ws/system.perf.sh

SEP

Re: HPUX disk write statistics

eran borovik — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 06:26:06 GMT

Shalom rav!
Indeed I already checked iostat. The problem is that it gives read+write bandwidth, and I need only the write bandwidth.
netstat isn't helpful because I am interested in disks only.

Many thanks,
Eran.

Re: HPUX disk write statistics

spex — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:08:33 GMT

Hello Eran,

HP OpenView Performance Agent is what you need. It is available as part of the GlancePlus Pak, which includes the critically-acclaimed GlancePlus.

http://www.openview.hp.com/products/gppak2k/prod_gppak2k_0001.html

PCS

Re: HPUX disk write statistics

eran borovik — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:23:11 GMT

Hi,
Thanks, I will take a look at that.
Do you have an idea as to whether I can obtain history text output that can be dumped to files (Like iostat). I need this capability to analyze write I/O behaviour over time using excel.

Best regards,
Eran.

Re: HPUX disk write statistics

spex — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 08:58:46 GMT

Yes, you can customize a report template to produce output just the way you like it, and then use the 'extract' utility to generate the report.