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Old 01-16-2008, 09:24 AM
Torrey McMahon
 
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Default Re: Monitoring STMS disk multi pathing

co4770@yahoo.com wrote:

>Fredrik Lundholm wrote:
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>>In article <1105858730.800815.58470@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups. com>,
>> <co4770@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I have STMS enabled for mutipathing using FC-AL disks and X6727A
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>>>

>HBA.
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>>>Disks are mirrored using Traffic manager paths
>>>
>>>Can I see both paths working and it's performance.Appreciate some
>>>
>>>

>tips.
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>>The command 'luxadm probe' will show the virtual paths. If you do a
>>'luxadm display {pathname}' it will show the underlying physical
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>paths.
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>>The performance is often measured on the disk array of fibre channel
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>switches.
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>>In solaris 'iostat -tcx 5' is a nice tool, however I don't think it
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>will show
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>>traffic on the physical paths.
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>>You could always dispable one path and ee if that impacts your
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>application
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>>performance.
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>>/Regards
>>Fredrik
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>>
>>--
>>Fredrik Lundholm
>>dol @ ce.chalmers.se
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>>

>
>Thanks for the reply, I am still wondering if there is any STMS command
>monitoring both paths. Since it is a production server,down time is an
>issue, in order to physically disable the path and see the performance.
>Regards
>
>


You can watch the performance down both/all paths with "iostat -X". if
you want to monitor the status of the paths you'll have to grok the
/var/adm/messages output or look at luxadm output within some delta.


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Torrey McMahon
Sun Microsystems Inc.
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