This free tool gives you a huge amount of information all on one screen. Even
though IBM doesn't officially support the tool and you must use it at your own
risk, you can get a wealth of performance statistics. Why use five or six
tools when one free tool can give you everything you need?
Do you ever feel you wish you could answer some of your own questions when
you work with AIX and your System p™ server? Do you ever feel you
could save time by not having to call on the support professionals all the
time? Well, wish no more. Shiv Dutta discusses some of the AIX commands that
answer those questions and tells you how to enlarge the list of such answers.
Adopt 10 good habits that improve your UNIX command line efficiency—and break
away from bad usage patterns in the process. This article takes you
step-by-step through several good, but too often neglected, techniques for
command-line operations. Learn about common errors and how to overcome them,
so you can learn exactly why these UNIX habits are worth picking up.
Searching for an easy way to create high-quality graphs that you can print,
publish to the Web, or cut and paste into performance reports? Look no
further. The nmon_analyser tool takes files produced by the NMON performance
tool, turns them into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, and automatically produces
these graphs.
Explore the vast terrain of the UNIX file system with the find command. One
of the most powerful and useful commands in the UNIX programmer's repertoire
is find. All flavors of UNIX have file systems that can contain thousands of
files of many different types. With so many choices, locating a specific file,
or set of files, can be difficult. The find command makes this task easier in
many ways.
Although Perl-based Web interfaces have limitations, Perl is one of the most
commonly used Web development languages. UNIX users who have a programming
background in shell scripting, Perl, or another language can breathe new life
into Perl-based Web interfaces by using the Perl/Tk module.
Adopt Python to manage UNIX systems while incorporating concepts of good
program design. Python is an easy-to-learn, open source scripting language
that lets system administrators do their job more quickly. It can also make
tasks more fun.
If you have UNIX-based programming experience, then you've probably worried
at some point about enhancing your network throughput. In this article, learn
some useful techniques to squeeze the most out of your bandwidth, and get a
big performance boost with some of the methods described here.
This tutorial, the sixth in a series, walks you through some of the useful
ways you can customize and configure the Emacs environment. Learn how to
change everything about the Emacs environment to your liking, from the
behavior of minor modes to the default key bindings. Along the way, figure out
how to set variables, make all your customizations automatic with a startup
file, save and recall any window and frame customizations that you make, and
use the easy customizer that comes built into Emacs.
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