Originally posted by: nmistry

Hi,

I am new to AIX/Unix world and have been promoted to be the AIX system admin.
My first task is to create some sort of performance measurement system like an excel scorecard to report on CPU, Memory ..etc. metrics for a given month.

I have tried using nmon, however I am not really sure how to interpret data.

My question is, what relevant data should I report on that will show me that the systems are healthy etc...

My second question is, what sort of other tools besides nmon could I use that can poll data over a period of time that can help me with reporting various values for CPU and Memory utilization.

Thanks.
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Originally posted by: UncAndy79

vmstat could be useful. You can have it poll the system every "x" seconds. Note that the first line will be statistics since the system was booted but the rest of the lines will show the statistics for the last polling interval. See the man page for details.
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Originally posted by: Kosala

NMON needs the NMON analyzer to make sense out of data (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/WikiPtype/nmonanalyser). May be you need a book on UNIX :). As for what other tools you can use, I generally prefer LPAR2RRD, that is if you have a couple servers, which are virtualized.

Cheers,
Ko
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