Run perfpmr on AIX to provide performance data from AIX server.

 Sometime AIX admin needs to provide AIX LPAR performance data to support for analysis,

this data generally required when there is performance issue on AIX LPAR.

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perfpmr data accurate and effective when AIX admin run during problem window or when problem exists.

IBM support provide script of perfpmr AIX admin must run script which is valid according to version of AIX operating system

steps to run perfpmr on AIX

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step 1:

OBTAINING THE PACKAGE

          
           From the internet:
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           'ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/aix/tools/perftools/perfpmr'




     configure "perfpmr" 1st time 

          once following file downloaded and placed on temporary location on AIX LPAR ,follow following procedure,
          'perf71.tar.Z'.

         login as root 

          create perf71 directory inside /tmp  and move tar file to that directory 

             # mkdir /tmp/perf71
             # cd /tmp/perf71


          c. extract the shell scripts out of the compressed
               tar file:

             # zcat /tmp/perf71.tar.Z | tar -xvf -

Step 2:

Create following directory

# mkdir /tmp/perfdata
# cd /tmp/perfdata

and run following script to start perfpmr and make sure that following script executed from "/tmp/perfdata" path only. if he execute in any other path all data will be collected there.

#nohup /tmp/perf71/perfpmr.sh 600 &

it will run command in background for 600 seconds, for 10 minutes

AIX Admin can monitor this by 

#tail -f nohup.out 

once from nohup.out AIX admin confirm that perfpmr completed ,admin can convert that directory to pax.gz by following command

#cd /tmp

#ls -ld perfdata

#pax -xpax -vw perfdata | gzip -c > pmr#.pax.gz

once file is genrated send that file to IBM support for analysis.

Thanks

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