Monitoring and tuning commands and subroutines

The system provides several performance-related commands and subroutines.

Performance tools for the system environment fall into two general categories: those that tell you what is occurring and those that let you do something about it. A few tools do both. For details of the syntax and functions of the commands, see the Commands Reference.

The performance-related commands are packaged as part of the perfagent.tools, bos.acct, bos.sysmgt.trace, bos.adt.samples, bos.perf.tools, and bos.perf.tune filesets that are shipped with the Base Operating System.

You can determine whether all the performance tools have been installed by running one of the following commands:

# lslpp -lI perfagent.tools bos.sysmgt.trace bos.acct bos.perf.tools bos.perf.tune