eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by DiskTest

DiskTest, which is an operating system-specific test periodically tracks the percentage disk space utilized per disk partition of the host. The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Pct_disk_util Indicates the percentage utilization of the disk partition. Percent When the utilization of a disk partition approaches 100%, many applications using the partition could begin to experience failures.
Read_rate Indicates the number of reads happening on a logical disk per second. Operations/Sec A dramatic increase in this value may be indicative of an I/O bottleneck on the server.
Write_rate Indicates the number of writes happening on a local disk per second. Operations/Sec A dramatic increase in this value may be indicative of an I/O bottleneck on the server.
Bytes_read_rate Indicates Bytes read per second from the logical disk. KB/Sec A very high value indicates an I/O bottleneck on the server.
Bytes_write_rate Indicates Bytes written per second to the logical disk. KB/Sec A very high value indicates an I/O bottleneck on the server.

Note 1:

Please execute the command “diskperf –y” at the command prompt of a Windows NT server and restart the system to obtain the following measurements reported by the DiskTest.

  1. Read_rate

  2. Write_rate

The read and write rates reported on Windows operating systems are the total values for all the drives on the system.

 

Note 2:

Read_rate, Write_rate, Bytes_read_rate, and Bytes_write_rate are not available on Linux, AIX, and HPUX operating systems.