System information

Red Book for AIX Rel. 7.0 and 8.0
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Command Description and Example
iostat 2 7
Issue the iostat every 2 seconds for a total of 7 times.
" Disk history since boot not available."
tty: in tout avg-cpu: % user % sys % idle % iowait
123.0 4772.8 32.9 20.4 1.4 45.3
Disks: % tm_act Kbps tps Kb_read Kb_wrtn
hdisk1 13.6 69.5 17.4 0 148
hdisk0 14.6 71.4 17.8 4 148
hdisk2 24.4 113.1 26.3 192 49
hdisk3 17.8 85.0 19.7 108 73
hdisk4 27.7 119.7 26.3 120 135
hdisk5 25.4 105.6 25.8 136 89
hdisk6 23.9 91.1 24.4 172 22
hdisk7 26.8 89.2 23.9 144 46
hdisk8 34.3 157.7 31.9 100 236
hdisk9 29.1 154.9 29.1 100 230
hdisk10 79.8 316.9 70.4 232 443
hdisk11 74.6 288.7 71.8 200 415
hdisk12 31.0 98.6 25.8 164 46
hdisk13 21.1 117.4 21.1 120 130
cd0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0
tty: %user + %sys > 80 consistently = cpu bound
%iowait: percentage the cpu was waiting on outstanding i/o request
UniVerse Commands
The following table describes common UniVerse database commands.
Command Description and Example
su – uv
From the root (#) prompt, takes you to uniVerse.
Press Esc to get to > prompt.
>.L RELLEVEL
Displays the uniVerse release you are running.
Example:
>.L RELLEVEL
RELLEVEL
001 X-type - The RELEASE LEVEL of this account
002 9.6.2.5
003 ADMIN
004
005 9.6.2.5