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April 23rd, 2010 05:00

Need command to display path utilization

We are currently moving from a dmx to a clariion.

We are trying to determine if we need powerpath.....in doing so I need a unix command that will show current path utilization.

Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks in advance for your help

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    Posted April 23rd, 2010 06:00

    you did not mention what flavor of *nix , iostat for AIX, sar -d fo HPUX.

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    Posted April 23rd, 2010 07:00

    I am not a unix person but a storage person.

    I will find out and let you know

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    Posted April 23rd, 2010 08:00

    how about looking into iostat numbers, run it agains native device not hdiskpower device. I don't have anything going on this box, hense all 0's

    iostat -d hdisk57 5

    System configuration: lcpu=2 disk=24
                    " Disk history since boot not available. "


    Disks:        % tm_act     Kbps      tps    Kb_read   Kb_wrtn
    hdisk57          0.0       0.0       0.0          0         0
    hdisk57          0.0       0.0       0.0          0         0
    hdisk57          0.0       0.0       0.0          0         0
    hdisk57          0.0       0.0       0.0          0         0

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    Posted April 23rd, 2010 08:00

    Does %tm_act give me the percent the path is used?

    Best regards,

    Samantha St.John

    VOLVO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES

    Senior Storage Engineer

    7821 National Service Road

    Greensboro, NC 27402

    Phone: (336)393-3917

    Fax: (336)393-4080

    Email: samantha.st.john@volvo.com

    Mail drop: AP3/46

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    Posted April 23rd, 2010 08:00

    Looks like it

    http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/aix/v6r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.cmds/doc/aixcmds3/iostat.htm

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    Posted April 23rd, 2010 08:00

    We're mostly running aix and we have NMON running but we don't see the path percent used in NMON.

    Any help is appreciated.

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    Posted April 23rd, 2010 08:00

    Hello Dynamox,

    These are all AIX 5.3 servers.

    Best regards,

    Samantha St.John

    VOLVO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES

    Senior Storage Engineer

    7821 National Service Road

    Greensboro, NC 27402

    Phone: (336)393-3917

    Fax: (336)393-4080

    Email: samantha.st.john@volvo.com

    Mail drop: AP3/46

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    Posted April 23rd, 2010 09:00

    Thank you dynamox

    Best regards,

    Samantha St.John

    VOLVO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES

    Senior Storage Engineer

    7821 National Service Road

    Greensboro, NC 27402

    Phone: (336)393-3917

    Fax: (336)393-4080

    Email: samantha.st.john@volvo.com

    Mail drop: AP3/46