HP-UX Performance Monitoring

[Shahab a. Razak]

Hello, I am running VVOS 3.5 on a K9000 700 series server. There are 2x 200Mhz
CPUs with 512MB RAM and 9Gig Hard drives. What I would like to know is the
following:

How do I guage the RAM utilization?
How do I guage the CPU Utilization?
How do I guage the Read/Write access to my HDD?

I know I can guage network utilization by using netstat, so what I am looking
for is similar tools that will help me guage the mentioned areas.

Thank you very much for your time.

Sincerely,

Shahab Razak

[Asad Malik_1]

Hi
before using these HP-UX performance monitoring tools, see man pages for
related options,

sar, vmstat, netstat, iostat, top, swapinfo, glance, bdf.
hope it helps

[Richard Malafa_1]

Yes that is true with vmstat, sar & etc. There is a whole chapter on
Performance monitoring in Sam's "UNIX Unleashed.

The tool I really like is HP's Measureware Software which includes GPM
(Glanceplus) & others. See your Application disks for a copy or contact your
HP Representative.

Try the mwademo. It has some really nifty data output for plotting in a
spreadsheet like Microsoft's Excel. The Network log file will even do number
of packets and collisions.

Regards, Rich

[Anthony Goonetilleke_1]

Glance plus is probably one of the best tools you could use in terms of getting
a very good overall picture. But the nicest quick and free utility is top,
this gives a overall indication of machine/proc's stats in an instant.