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Storage monitoring overview

This monitoring profile helps you monitor the storage (disks, filesystems and swap devices) related to your AIX operating system. Each of these areas is a monitor type that is enabled for default monitoring. Click the listed link for information about the monitor type and the attributes associated with it. Click Add to directly apply this profile and enable default monitoring.

Some of these monitor types need to be manually configured and require user input; for information about the configuration steps, click the appropriate configuration link.

Monitor type

Configuration link

Monitor type link

Disks 

Filesystems 

The following monitor types are part of process monitoring and will also be loaded.

  •  AIX
  • Disk
  • Filesystem
  • Swap
  • Swap Devices

No configuration required.

Terminology note

Attributes in the TrueSight console and Central Monitoring Administration are known as parameters in the PATROL consoles.

Monitor types in the TrueSight console and Central Monitoring Administration are known as application classes in the PATROL consoles.

 

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