Originally posted by: drajarsh

Hi

1) I am interested in knowing the tools / commands that an AIX administrator uses while identifying problems in an AIX LPAR.
E.g. the errpt output is one place which I think is looked up (please correct me if I am wrong). However, the errpt output shows up lots of information.

2) Is there any specific field in the errpt output that an AIX admin looks for in order to identify an existing or a potential future problem? Are there some fields in the errpt output that are of more interest than others?

3) What are the other most extensively used tools / commands for identifying problems in AIX?

4) What are the most extensively used problem diagnostic (analysis) tools in AIX?

Please let me know if this question fits in some other forum better than this one and I will re-post it.

Thanks

Originally posted by: dukessd

For hardware problems:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.cmds/doc/aixcmds2/diag.htm

Originally posted by: drajarsh

Thank you very much dukessd for the pointer on starting problem determination / diagnostics related to hardware.

Would you / someone else also have any pointers on starting problem determination / diagnostics related to software?

Thanks again.

Originally posted by: sophos

For performance you can use these tools.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/WikiPtype/Performance+Other+Tools

Originally posted by: sophos

sorry wrong url use the one below for aix
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/WikiPtype/Performance+Monitoring+Tools