ferroni@astro.pc.ab.com (Paul Ferroni) (06/15/90)
This might be a rehash (were only 3 weeks old on NEWS), but here goes...
About a year ago, several people from our organization met with DEC's disk
experts on "futures" in the disk area. Out of that meeting came a promise for
some (then existing) software that runs on the HSC which monitors the actual
throughput (i/o's per second) of each disk. We never received that software
and now find ourselves in even greater need for it. The main person who
promised the software was Ken Bates.
Questions:
1) Does anyone out there have a way (whether it's this software or another
method) of monitoring disk activity regardless of which node it's coming
from? (MON CLUSTER won't handle our 48 node MI, so don't even bother
recommending that...)
2) Can anyone forward this to, or pass on Ken's Internet address so I can ask
him myself?
Thanks.
-cpf
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C. Paul Ferroni
Allen Bradley, Technical Computer Center
Highland Heights, OH
Internet: cpferroni@ab.com
Quote to be determined...chris@usc.edu (Christopher Ho) (06/15/90)
In article <107.2677926e@astro.pc.ab.com>, ferroni@astro.pc.ab.com (Paul Ferroni) writes... >About a year ago, several people from our organization met with DEC's disk >experts on "futures" in the disk area. Out of that meeting came a promise for >some (then existing) software that runs on the HSC which monitors the actual >throughput (i/o's per second) of each disk. There's a utility called VTDPY starting with CRONIC 3.7 (I think) which gives an overall indication of HSC load, but won't break it down on a per disk basis. Perhaps some combination of that plus MONITOR DISK on the CI-connected machines would be sufficient to supply the info you need? Chris