Client instrumentation categories
IBM Storage Protect client instrumentation reports the elapsed times for many process categories.
The following table lists the client instrumentation categories that are tracked and the activity that is timed.
| Category | Activity |
|---|---|
| Query Server Dirs | Receiving the server inventory directories for incremental backup |
| Query Server Files | Receiving the server inventory files for incremental backup |
| Process Dirs | Scanning files to back up or restore |
| Cache Examine | Scanning the local disk cache database for files to expire |
| Solve Tree | Determining directory structure |
| Compute | Computing throughput and compression ratio |
| BeginTxn Verb | Building transactions |
| Transaction | File open, close, and other miscellaneous operations |
| File I/O | File read and write |
| Compression | Compressing and uncompressing data |
| Encryption | Encrypting and decrypting data |
| CRC | Computing and comparing CRC values |
| Data Verb | Sending and receiving data to and from the server (points to the network or IBM Storage Protect server) |
| Confirm Verb | Response time during backup for server confirm verb |
| TCP Read | The amount of time to read data from server. |
| EndTxn Verb | Server transaction commit and tape synchronization (points to the IBM Storage Protect server) |
| Other | Everything else that is not tracked already |