Starting and stopping server instrumentation

You can start server instrumentation from an administrative command line or from an administrative client. After you stop server instrumentation, you can use the results to determine where performance problems are occurring.

About this task

You must have system privilege to start or stop server instrumentation.

Procedure

Complete the following steps to use server instrumentation:

  1. Issue the INSTRUMENTATION BEGIN command to start instrumentation from the administrative client:
    dsmadmc -credentialsfile=secretpwdfile instrumentation begin

    The id that is specified in the credentials file must be an IBM Storage Protect administrator ID that has system privilege.

  2. Start an operation for which you want to analyze performance.
  3. Issue the INSTRUMENTATION END command to stop server instrumentation. Specify an output file for the data. If you do not specify an output file, data is written only to the screen. If you issue any remote commands from an administrative client and redirect the output to a file, that file is saved to the administrative client.
    The following command can be issued from the administrative client:
    dsmadmc -credentialsfile=secretpwdfile instrumentation end > filename