Configuring and using the application availability analysis tool

You can use SMIT to check on a given application over a certain time period.

About this task

Follow these steps:

Procedure

From the command line, enter smit sysmirror
In SMIT, select System Management (C-SPOC) > Resource Group and Applications > Application Availability Analysis and press Enter.
Select an application. Press F4 to see the list of configured applications.

Fill in the fields as follows:

Table 1. Application Availability Analysis fields
Field	Value
Application Name	Application you selected to monitor.
Begin analysis on year (1970-2038) month (01-12) day (1-31)
Begin analysis at hour (00-23) minutes (00-59) seconds (00-59)
End analysis on year (1970-2038) month (01-12) day (1-31)
End analysis at hour (00-23) minutes (00-59) seconds (00-59)

Press Enter. The application availability report is displayed as shown in the following sample.

Results

     COMMAND STATUS
Command: OK    stdout: yes    stderr: no
Before command completion, additional instructions may appear as follows.

Application: myapp

Analysis begins: Monday, 1-May-2002, 14:30
Analysis ends:  Friday, 5-May-2002, 14:30 

Total time:    5 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds

Uptime:
Amount: 4 days, 23 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds
Percentage:    99.16 %
Longest period:     4 days, 23 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds

Downtime:
Amount: 0 days, 0 hours, 45 minutes, 0 seconds
Percentage:    00.62 %
Longest period:     0 days, 0 hours, 45 minutes, 0 seconds

If the utility encounters an error in gathering or analyzing the data, it displays one or more error messages in a Command Status panel.