Working with the results of monitoring

The ziomon monitor produces output files with a prefix that you specify when you start the monitor.

<filename>.cfg, holds various configuration data from the system. This data is a snapshot of certain subtrees of the file system in tgz format, that is, /sys and /proc.
<filename>.log, holds the raw data samples that are taken during the data collection phase in a binary format.
<filename>.agg (optional). When <filename>.log threatens to become larger than the allowed limit, old sample data is aggregated into this file to make room for more recent data. This file is also in a binary format. If no limit was specified or the collected data takes less than the limit, this file is not created.

You can read the monitoring files on other systems than the one where data was collected. In particular, you can read and analyze data that is collected on z Systems® on a different Linux architecture, such as x86 architecture.