resource contention

[Lebo Mollo]

Hi Guys

Can somebody help

1.please explain what is resouce contention?
.What can be measured and monitored?

2.investigate whether disk utilization (in terms of I/O)on RAID can be measured, e.g throughput specifications vs actual throughput?

3.investigate whether disk resource contention can be reported on ?

[Steve Steel]

Hi

The basics are explained well in

http://platinum1.cxo.cpqcorp.net/techref/oracle805/server.805/a58246/resource.htm


For the disk questions use a HP product

The EMS hardware monitors allow you to monitor the operation of a wide variety of hardware products and be alerted immediately if any failure or other unusual event occurs. Hardware event monitoring is available to users running HP-UX 10.20 or 11.X (IPR 9902 and later).

Hardware event monitoring provides a high level of protection against system hardware failure. By using hardware event monitoring, you can virtually eliminate undetected hardware failures that could interrupt system operation or cause data loss


http://docs.cup.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B5735-90001/B5735-90001_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B5735-90001/00/00/6-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B5735-90001/00/00/6-toc.html&searchterms=EMS&queryid=20030515-070805


Steve Steel