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Document Author:	mark gordon		Document ID:	PRS1230
Doc. Organization:	BI/ERP Solutions Center		Document Revised:	06/30/2008
Product(s) covered:	AIX; AIX 5L; DS6000; DS8000; ESS

Abstract: filemon_disk_sys_stats.pl is a perl script that merges filemon reports with disk configuration information, to create a .csv file which is used in Microsoft Excel to summarize I/O performance statistics. The .csv file is used with Microsoft Excel to group and report I/O activity in ways that are not available in filemon, such as grouping at the ESS, adapter, disk array (e.g. ESS RANK), LSS, LUN, or VG level, and sorting by transfer rate, I/O activity rate, or I/O elapsed time. The perl script get_disk_conf.pl in this package is called by filemon_disk_sys_stats.pl to generate configuration information. The scripts have been tested with 1) ESS disk configured with MPIO multipathing under AIX 5.3., 2) ESS with SDD multipathing under AIX 5.3, 3) ESS configured without multipathing, and 4) SCSI disk, and 5) EMC Symmetrix Raid1 with AIX 5.2 (new in V3). 6) DS6K with MPIO under AIX 5.3 (new in V4). This tool replaces PRS1134, the "Filemon processing tool for ESS and SDD". V2 (for configurations 1-4 above), V3 (for configurations 1-5), and V4 (configurations 1-6) can be downloaded from here.

Classification:	Software	Category:	Performance
Platform(s):	IBM System p Family
O/S:	AIX	Keywords:	DS6K, DS8K, ESS, MPIO, filemon, SCSI, EMC