Mon, 29 May 2006

Using and Obtaining nmon

Nmon is available for AIX and Linux (x86 and Power)
Download the latest nmon for AIX v5.3 from 
http://www-941.ibm.com/collaboration/wiki/display/WikiPtype/nmon

You will need to gunzip it and untar it 
I untar it to /usr/local/perf
Then run nmon_aix53 as follows:

cd /usr/local/perf
nmon_aix53 -fT -c 30 -s 240

This will cause nmon to run for about 2 hours gathering data - the output will be put in /usr/local/perf


Once it is finished (check using ps -ef | grep nmon) then use nmon analyzer and MS Excel to analyze the output

nmon analyser can be found at:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/articles/nmon_analyser/index.html
or
http://www-941.haw.ibm.com/collaboration/wiki/display/WikiPtype/nmonanalyser

You can find out more about nmon at Nigel Griffiths' online workshop at:
http://www-941.ibm.com/collaboration/wiki/display/WikiPtype/nmon+Introduction+Workshop



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