command to monitor fiber channel adapters? (solved)

Thanks to everyone who replied to this!

Here are the results:

Holger: iostat –a will give you stats
Larry and Ryan: nmon with the a option

Some also suggested using the “datapath query adaptstats” which also works
nicely when running SDD.

Thanks again.

Drew





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Latest beta of nmon is 11d. We have been using this successfully. Try "a"
for Adapter I/O stats.

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xName %busy read write xfers Disks Adapter-Type
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xfscsi0 2.0 0.0 16.0 KB/s 4.0 101 FC SCSI I/O
Controlle x
xfscsi1 1.0 0.0 4.0 KB/s 0.0 101 FC SCSI I/O
Controlle x
xscsi0 6.0 0.0 63.9 KB/s 8.0 3 Wide/Ultra-3 SCSI
I/O x
xfcs0 4.0 0.0 20.0 KB/s 0.0 86 FC Adapter
x
xfcs1 0.0 0.0 0.0 KB/s 0.0 14 FC Adapter
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xTOTALS 5 adapters 0.0 103.8 KB/s 12.0 305 TOTAL(MB/s)=0.1
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Subject: Re: command to monitor fiber channel adapters?

Hmmm... We have nmon installed but I'm not seeing the flags for Fiber
Channel adapters connected to SAN devices.

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h = This help information
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n = Network stats j = JFS
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d = Disk I/O Graphs D=Stats o = Disks %Busy Map
a = Adapter I/O Stats e = ESS
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--- Andrew.Townsend@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Is there a command to view/monitor the traffic on a
fiber channel adapter?

TIA,

Drew


NMON has an option to view such a thing...but that
option is not valid on AIX 5.1

http://www-
128.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/articles/analyze_aix/index.html


Also, we monitor the traffic at the switch level via
SNMP and MRTG.

regards,
enrique.


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