The "ioscan" recommended by RuBiCK will tell you about your discs and DVD drive. It will also force HP-UX to look.
"iostat" with no parameters always produces the same wrong figures. It needs to be run for a sample period to produce useful figures.
The output from "sar" can be more useful but it does not report on idle discs.
For a quick test you can try these two commands to sample disc performance at 10 second intervals twice.
Currently I have a box that I am dual-booting Win98 & Linux on. I have an unformatted 3 gig slice that I would like to install Soloris 8 x86 on. Are there any issues I should be aware of? How close is the x86 install to the sparc install? The Linux partition will be going away but I need to reatain... (1 Reply)
how to i find out the disk usage on a server.
say in windows examples its like C:/ D:/ and checking out the disk space.
how can i find in Unix.
can i just use df -k (3 Replies)
Perhaps someone here has some experience with this.
machine os RHE 4 6
oracle 10g RAC
disk is SAN attached clariion.
I have presented new disks to the host, so the machine sees all needed LUNS. powermt shows them, they are labeled and i have fdisk'd them.
They are visible across all RAC... (5 Replies)
Hi all
I had started to learn how to backup disk to disk to tape method
Firstly I had backup to my NAS
tar czvf /MyNetworkStorge/backup.tar /home
Secondly I using dd command to copy the tar to tape
dd if=/MyNetworkStorge/backup.tar of=/dev/tape0
But the tape drive always hang.... (5 Replies)
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Hello,
On Solaris 10, iostat -E gives me the following results:
sd1 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: FUJITSU Product: MAY2073RCSUN72G Revision: 0501 Serial No: 0708S08M2L
Size: 73.40GB <73400057856 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0... (1 Reply)
Hello,
We are running sun solaris and it is connected to SAN storage. How do I find what are the disks are internal and what are the disks are connected to SAN? (0 Replies)
hi guys
I have a linux server which has about 5 volumes from SAN (fiber channel) now I need to measure the transfer rate between one LUN which is a Logical Volume to another LUN which is another Logical Volume.
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each SAN volume is a logical volume... (3 Replies)
Long time Linux, relatively new to Solaris.
Currently I have a Solaris 9 machine which has a mirrored root disk. We will be running some tests on this machine, and when those tests are done we want to restore it to "pre-test" status.
What I would like to do is break the mirror, pull the first... (2 Replies)
Hello All, this may be a simple question but I wasn't sure how to word it to search for the answer. Have a look at the following:
/dev/mapper/vgdata-lvdata 626G 594G 0 100% /data01
As you can see the disk size 626GB of which 594G is used. There's 32GB difference there but the... (5 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
sar
sar(1M) System Administration Commands sar(1M)NAME
sar, sa1, sa2, sadc - system activity report package
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/sa/sadc [t n] [ofile]
/usr/lib/sa/sa1 [t n]
/usr/lib/sa/sa2 [-aAbcdgkmpqruvwy] [-e time] [-f filename]
[-i sec] [-s time]
DESCRIPTION
System activity data can be accessed at the special request of a user (see sar(1)) and automatically, on a routine basis, as described
here. The operating system contains several counters that are incremented as various system actions occur. These include counters for CPU
utilization, buffer usage, disk and tape I/O activity, TTY device activity, switching and system-call activity, file-access, queue activ-
ity, inter-process communications, and paging. For more general system statistics, use iostat(1M), sar(1), or vmstat(1M).
sadc and two shell procedures, sa1 and sa2, are used to sample, save, and process this data.
sadc, the data collector, samples system data n times, with an interval of t seconds between samples, and writes in binary format to ofile
or to standard output. The sampling interval t should be greater than 5 seconds; otherwise, the activity of sadc itself may affect the sam-
ple. If t and n are omitted, a special record is written. This facility can be used at system boot time, when booting to a multi-user
state, to mark the time at which the counters restart from zero. For example, when accounting is enabled, the svc:/system/sar:default ser-
vice writes the restart mark to the daily data file using the command entry:
su sys -c "/usr/lib/sa/sadc /var/adm/sa/sa'date +%d'"
The shell script sa1, a variant of sadc, is used to collect and store data in the binary file /var/adm/sa/sadd, where dd is the current
day. The arguments t and n cause records to be written n times at an interval of t seconds, or once if omitted. The following entries in
/var/spool/cron/crontabs/sys will produce records every 20 minutes during working hours and hourly otherwise:
0 * * * 0-6 /usr/lib/sa/sa1
20,40 8-17 * * 1-5 /usr/lib/sa/sa1
See crontab(1) for details.
The shell script sa2, a variant of sar, writes a daily report in the file /var/adm/sa/sardd. See the OPTIONS section in sar(1) for an
explanation of the various options. The following entry in /var/spool/cron/crontabs/sys will report important activities hourly during the
working day:
5 18 * * 1-5 /usr/lib/sa/sa2 -s 8:00 -e 18:01 -i 1200 -A
FILES
/tmp/sa.adrfl
address file
/var/adm/sa/sadd
Daily data file
/var/adm/sa/sardd
Daily report file
/var/spool/cron/crontabs/sys
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWaccu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO crontab(1), sag(1), sar(1), svcs(1), timex(1), iostat(1M), svcadm(1M), vmstat(1M), attributes(5), smf(5)NOTES
The sar service is managed by the service management facility, smf(5), under the service identifier:
svc:/system/sar
Administrative actions on this service, such as enabling, disabling, or requesting restart, can be performed using svcadm(1M). The ser-
vice's status can be queried using the svcs(1) command.
SunOS 5.11 20 Aug 2004 sar(1M)