eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by IbmDsCntlrPerfTest

The IbmDsCntlrPerfTest monitors the I/O and transaction traffic on each controller on a storage device, and reports irregularities in load balancing across controllers.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Total_IO Indicates the number of IO operations that occurred on this controller during the last measurement period. Number Comparing the value of this measure across controller s can reveal whether any controller is overloaded. If so, this revelation could turn the spotlight on imbalances in load distribution across the controllers.
Prct_read Indicates the percent of read operations that occurred on this controller. Percent  
Prct_write Indicates the percentage of write operations that occurred on this controller. Percent  
Cache_hit_prct Indicates the percentage of requests to this controller that were served from the cache. Percent A high value is ideally desired for this measure. A low value could imply that most of the data requested is not in the cache, which in turn could result in a high degree of direct disk accesses.
Trans_rate Indicates the rate of transactions to this controller. KB/Sec  
Current_IOPS Indicates the rate of I/O operations to this controller. IO/Sec