This IBM Redbook incorporates the
latest AIX 5L performance and tuning tools. It is a comprehensive guide
about the performance monitoring and tuning tools that are provided
with AIX 5L Version 5.3, and it is the ultimate guide for system
administrators and support professionals who want to efficiently use
the AIX performance monitoring and tuning tools and understand how to
interpret the statistics.
The usage of each tool is explained along with the measurements it
takes and the statistics it produces. This redbook contains a large
number of usage and output examples for each of the tools, pointing out
the relevant statistics to look for when analyzing an AIX system's
performance from a practical point of view. It also explains the
performance API available with AIX 5L and gives examples about how to
create your own performance tools.
This redbook also contains an overview of the graphical AIX performance
tools available with AIX 5L and the AIX Performance Toolbox Version 3.0.
This redbook is a rework of the very popular redbook AIX 5L Performance Tools Handbook, SG24-6039, published in 2003. |