AIX tip: vmstat trends

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Add this in bb-hosts to the AIX servers you are monitoring: TRENDS:*vmstat:vmstat1|vmstat8|vmstat-avm|vmstat-free-list
  • vmstat1: CPU status with wait (normally you get only system + user + idle)
  • vmstat8: page-in and page-out statistics
  • vmstat-avm: total access virtual memory
  • vmstat-free-list: available free memory
Add this to hobbitgraph.cfg:
[vmstat-avm]
        TITLE Memory Accessed Virtual Memory
        YAXIS Size kB
        -b 1024
        DEF:avm=vmstat.rrd:mem_avm:AVERAGE
        CDEF:sw=avm,4048,*
        LINE2:sw#00CC00:
        GPRINT:sw:LAST:Accessed Virtual Memory  \: %5.1lf%s (cur)
        GPRINT:sw:MAX: \: %5.1lf%s (max)
        GPRINT:sw:MIN: \: %5.1lf%s (min)
        GPRINT:sw:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf%s (avg)\n

[vmstat-free-list]
        TITLE Memory free list
        YAXIS pages kB
        -b 1024
        DEF:free=vmstat.rrd:mem_free:AVERAGE
        CDEF:fr=free,4048,*
        LINE2:fr#00CC00
        GPRINT:fr:LAST:Size of the free list \: %5.1lf%s (cur)
        GPRINT:fr:MAX: \: %5.1lf%s (max)
        GPRINT:fr:MIN: \: %5.1lf%s (min)
        GPRINT:fr:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf%s (avg)\n