> Is it possible to do the following with the Performance Toolkit? > > 1. Keep more than 3 iterations of the FC BENCHMRK data files for Linux > Guests?
Not exactly - the BNCHMRK command keeps only three iterations. But you can use the PERFSVM FCONTROL SETEVENT command to move the benchmark data off of the 191 disk to other larger data disks, for example, and thereby keep rolling the data along for extended time periods greater than just three generations. Or FTP the data elsewhere, or whatever you like. > 2. Record the FC BENCHMARK data files to a minidisk other than 191/A? See answer above. > 3. Disable the collection of trending and summary data? FCXTREND, > FCXSUM? If you do a FCONTROL MONCOLL RESET CLEAR, and you do not follow it by an FCONTROL MONCOLL RESET with a time interval that specifies a start for S or T, then you will not generate summary or trend record file types. Example: FC MONCOLL RESET CLEAR (REPLACE FC MONCOLL RESET 00:00:00R_P 23:59:59P (MERGE FC MONCOLL RESET 00:00:00I (MERGE <rest of FCONX $PROFILE> Now if you only wanted summary records, by shift, for example, you could add FC MONCOLL RESET 00:00:00R_S 08:00:00S 16:00:00S 23:59:59S (MERGE > 3a. We always have the problem of the &SYSID FCXTREND file > filling up the A disk - requiring a bounce of PERFSVM First, allocate a bigger PERFSVM 191 disk. Then, use the technique in #1 above to move the data off at appropriate times to keep the disk from filling, like after midnight, for example. You can many things from SETEVENT, even a REXX EXEC. > 4. Recommendations for navigating the raw monitor data collected by > MONWRITE? > 4a. NEXTSAMP works ok...but you have to back completely out if > you want to view a previous record. > Is there a PREVSAMP or equivalent? Actually you can issue the NEXTSAMP or SKIPSAMP with the hh:mm (or hh:mm:ss) parameter to go to a particular time in monitor sample mode, or with the yyyymmdd parameter in trendfile mode. > > > Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks! > You're welcome. Paul Giordano IT Specialist, Linux on System z IBM Corporation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
