Tuning and debugging guidelines

This information is provided for administrators of the z/OS® Distributed File Service SMB server; it describes the SMB tuning and debugging guidelines. The examples presented here are for illustrative purposes only; it is normal for the output of some reports to wrap.

As Figure 1 shows, like most file system servers, SMB is dependent on many factors. If problems arise, SMB provides diagnosis information to help determine the sources of bottlenecks or the effect of a hardware or software change on SMB performance. SMB also provides environment variables and the output of QUERY commands. The default settings are sufficient for most installations.

Figure 1. SMB server components