We have used "nmon" on AIX. But we don't use UV on AIX here. It's free and doesn't come with anything fancy like the commercial toolsets...
I have used GlancePlus on HP-UX. There is an AIX version available and a trial can be arranged via: https://h10078.www1.hp.com/cda/hpms/display/main/hpms_content.jsp?zn=bto&cp=1-11-15-28^9637_4000_100 Whatever tool you use, where it lets you categorise UNIX processes will help. In the past, a previous employer hired a consultant from HP to do the analysis (GlancePlus temp license came with the consultancy). He put together a report to help tune HP-UX and help us identify processes that we needed to optimise. Whatever the tool, clearly you need to have a good handle of what processes you run. You can do additional stuff like have your own "phantom" verb which logs when it is fired up and get your any program run as phantom to log it's PID, @PARASENTENCE and @SENTENCE values into a log file (along with date time stamps, etc). Correlate these with your performance collections stats which hopefully includes PIDs and UNIX commands (uv, uvsh, phantom, u2amiproxy, etc, etc).. -----Original Message----- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Boydell, Stuart Sent: Friday, 21 January 2011 11:04 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] [UV][AIX] System Management and Performance Tools Hi, Just wondering if anyone has any recommendations for systems monitoring/management tools for aix5.3/uv10.2.4. I've seen occasional discussions on the topic here over the years. Ideally, what we would like to do is be able to track down those end of month type processes which bog the system down with CPU & IO bottlenecks during peak load periods. I suppose this could be done with something like topas, truss and PORT.STATUS but just wondering what is available. There was a tool called "DPMonitor" that looked like it could be suitable - does this exist in any form? Also, does anyone know if the "Travels with Mark: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the UniVerse<http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&sqi=2&ved=0CBIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mail-archive.com%2Fu2-users%40listserver.u2ug.org%2Fmsg13400.html&rct=j&q=dm-dw-dm-0512baldridge-i&ei=jMs4TavnI4mYvAOC0uiJCg&usg=AFQjCNGTQCWE14j2-XEP6lQSFjTnMi98Zg&cad=rja>" series on performance tuning is available anywhere. It was on the IBM developerworks site but, no more. ************** IMPORTANT MESSAGE ***************************** This e-mail message is intended only for the addressee(s) and contains information which may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please advise the sender by return email, do not use or disclose the contents, and delete the message and any attachments from your system. Unless specifically indicated, this email does not constitute formal advice or commitment by the sender or the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ABN 48 123 123 124) or its subsidiaries. We can be contacted through our web site: commbank.com.au. If you no longer wish to receive commercial electronic messages from us, please reply to this e-mail by typing Unsubscribe in the subject line. ************************************************************** _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
