Installing PerfView on other than /opt.

[Gulam Mohiuddin]

I will be installing PerfView and I guess it will be by default installed on /opt mount point. I also don't want to increase it.

But I don't have enough free space in /opt, could I install PerfView on any other mount point which has enough free space.

Thanks,

Gulam.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Unfortunately perfview doesn't go anywhere other than /opt/perf and /var/opt/perf as far as my knowledge goes.

The best way is to create a seperate file system in a different volume group and link it from here. Here is what I would do

1) Mount a new file system say /perfview from any of the volume groups.

2) create two subdirectories called optperf and varoptperf inside it

#mkdir /perfview/optperf
#mkdir /perfview/varoptperf

3) Link them from /opt and /var/opt

#ln -s /perfview/optperf /opt/perf
#ln -s /perfview/varoptperf /var/opt/perf

You can also create two different file systems for /opt/perf and /var/opt/perf and mount them. But We don't want to create a seperate file system for /opt/perf which is being very small.

-Sri

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

There are two ways that this can achieved,
that is either via the command line, choose
the option for 'target'. See the man page
on 'swinstall' for more information, or what
is probably much easier and that is to run
'swinstall' interactively. Once the program
starts and after you choose what your going
to install, From the actions menu, select
change target and specify where you would
the installation to occur.

HTH
-Michael

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

I am a bit cautious about installing this software by changing the target in the swinstall session. This is because some of the scripts like /opt/perf/bin/mwa are hardcoded with the path names including the startup scripts in /sbin/init.d directory. You may have to work little harder to make them work along with /var/opt/perf that will consume disk space over a period of time.

-Sri

[Michael Tully]

On thinking about it perhaps a linked
mount point would be better. In fact I
used one on my OmniBack Cell Server so
I should have thought of it as well :-(
You could if it is necessary to also
create a new mount point for the data
as well to /var/opt/perf although once
the data is has been collected over a
period of time the file sizes should
remain stagnant unless you wish to keep
certain things.

Options are yours....

-Michael

[Santosh Nair_1]

Instead of a linke mount point, why not just create new filesystems under /opt/perf and /var/opt/perf. This way, you don't need to increase /opt and you also don't need to worry about /var getting filled with data from PerfView.


-Santosh