Summary of session options

Monitor I creates SMF records type 70 — 78, you find an overview in Activity monitoring.

Table 1 gives a summary of the available options, grouped by purpose. There are options for specifying:

What activities to monitor
The time-frame for monitoring them
What reports to produce
Environmental information

Table 1. Summary of Monitor I Session Options
Option	Description	Details on
Activity Options
`CACHE/NOCACHE`	Cache activity	CACHE
`CHAN/NOCHAN`	Channel path activity	CHAN
`CPU/NOCPU`	Processor activity	CPU
`CRYPTO/NOCRYPTO`	Cryptographic hardware activity	CRYPTO
`DEVICE(type)/NODEVICE`	Device activity	DEVICE
`{(SUMMARY )} ENQ{(DETAIL[,majorname[,minorname]])}/ NOENQ`	Enqueue contention activity	ENQ
`ESS[(opt_list)]/NOESS`	Enterprise Disk System statistics	ESS
`FCD/NOFCD`	FICON® director activity	FCD
`IOQ (opt_list)/NOIOQ`	I/O queuing activity	IOQ
`PAGESP/NOPAGESP`	Page data set activity	PAGESP
`PAGING/NOPAGING`	System paging activity	PAGING
`TRACE(variable[,opt_list])/NOTRACE`	Trace variables for the Trace Activity report	TRACE
`{(S )} VSTOR{(D [,jobname1,jobname2,...])}/ NOVSTOR`	Virtual storage activity	VSTOR
`WKLD/NOWKLD`	Workload activity	WKLD
`VMGUEST/NOVMGUEST`	Processor activity	VMGUEST
Time-frame Options
`{(1000)} CYCLE{(nnn )}`	The length of the cycle at the end of which RMF™ makes sampling observations	CYCLE
`({30M}) INTERVAL({nnn[M]})`	The length of the reporting interval in minutes used in combination with the options SYNC(RMF,mm), SYNC(RMF,mmM), or NOSYNC	INTERVAL
`[M] STOP (value[H])/NOSTOP`	Desired duration of the Monitor I session, in minutes (M), or hours (H)	STOP
`{(SMF)} {(RMF,mm)} SYNC {(RMF,mmM)}/NOSYNC`	Interval synchronization with the SMF or the RMF interval synchronization on the minute	SYNC
Reporting Options
`{OPTIONS}/{NOOPTIONS} {OPTN } {NOOPTN }`	Option list for the session to be printed at the operator console	OPTIONS
`RECORD/NORECORD`	Specifies whether measured data is to be written to SMF records	RECORD
`{(REALTIME)} REPORT{(DEFER )}/NOREPORT`	Specifies production of printed interval reports of measured data	REPORT
`SYSOUT(class)`	SYSOUT class to which the formatted printed reports are directed	SYSOUT
Environment Options
`EXITS/NOEXITS`	User exit routines to be executed during session processing to gather or report additional data	EXITS
`MEMBER(list)`	Parmlib member containing Monitor I session options	MEMBER