Symstat command

You would be MUCH better off collecting STP data at 5 minute intervals which would give you those metrics and more.

On any host with solutions enabler there is a STP daemon you can start.

You can start it with the command "stordaemon start storstpd"

You can show the options with the command "stordaemon show storstpd"

The CLI manuals should have details on the stordaemon storstpd options

You will need the performance mananger viewer from ECC or get the STP Navigator program from your EMC team.

Hi Quincy

Thanks for your reply. Can you please expain in detail with some exmaples. what STP means?. Can you please point to any documents.. I know only symstat commands..

Thanks

naren

Hi Quincy

Thanks for your reply.

1. Is performance mananger viewer from ECC or  STP Navigator program is must to view data from stordaemon deamon.

2. Is there is any CLI which i can use to retrieve data from stordaemon directly without depending on performance manager viewer or STP navigator.

Thanks

Naren

Hi Quincy

We are planning to parse the TTP file because we doing some preprocessing to generate custom reports. Can you point out any documents about how to generate TTP file and how to generate specific TTP file( for example Port Performance, Symdev performance). Do you have any samples of TTP file. Can you please attach it if you have any.

Thanks

naren

The output from the STP daemon is a zipped TTP file which is a text file.  It is possible to parse the TTP file, but I never do that since viewing the stats in STP navigator is so easy.

STP daemon will create ttp files.

I have attached a zipped TTP file.

Hi Quincy

Thanks for the attachment. Can you please point out some documents how to generate and intrepret the data in the TTP files.

Thanks

Naren

look into SPA as well ...much cheaper alternative to ECC/Performance Manager

Message was edited by: dynamox

Hi Quincy

1. Can you please elobrate  what do you mean by using an FA CPU that isn't being used heavily.

2. Symstat command would cause performance issue for symmetrix?

Thanks for your prompt reply and helping me to find the solution.

Naren

Hi Dynamox

What do you mean by SPA.. Is it storage performance analyzer?

1) Any FA doing several thousand IOS/sec.

2) Syscalls can cause performance issues on Symmetrix when there are a lot of them.  Symmstat was never designed to run multiple instances for a long time.  It was designed for short term views into specific counters. 

Yes, SPA=Storage performance analyzer, however I don't think there is a way to export SPA to a text file.

SPA = Symmetrix Performance Analyzer