Resource management tools help you monitor performance and identify
performance issues. There are many ways to collect the system data
you need to investigate performance problems.
rmfpms is a modular data gatherer for Linux. The gathered
data can be analyzed using the RMF PM client application.
The performance data are accessible through XML over HTTP
so you can easily exploit it in your own applications.
Further details see http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/rmf/rmfhtmls/pmweb/pmlin.html