System performance monitoring

AIX provides many tools and techniques for monitoring performance-related system activity.

Continuous system-performance monitoring advantages
There are several advantages to continuously monitoring system performance.
Continuous system-performance monitoring with commands
The vmstat, iostat, netstat, and sar commands provide the basic foundation upon which you can construct a performance-monitoring mechanism.
Continuous system-performance monitoring with the topas command
The topas command reports vital statistics about the activity on the local system, such as real memory size and the number of write system calls.
Continuous system-performance monitoring using Performance Management (PM) service
Performance Management (PM) service helps automates the collection, archival and analysis of system performance data and returns reports to help customer manage system resources and capacity. The data collected is system utilization, performance information, and hardware configuration information.

Parent topic: Performance management