Writer instructions

Page title

For most spaces, this page must be titled Space announcements.

For spaces with localized content, this page must be titled Space announcements l10n.

Purpose

Provide an announcement banner on every page of your space.

Location

Move this page outside of your home branch.

Guidelines

Announcement Support for this product will end on November 3, 2025. We recommend that you use PATROL for Linux, PATROL for AIX, or PATROL for Solaris to monitor operating systems.

Monitoring CPU and Kernel

The PATROL Knowledge Module for UNIX enables you to monitor the CPU and kernel of a system. The PATROL Knowledge Module for UNIX and Linux monitors processors through two applications: CPU and SMP. It monitors the kernel through the KERNEL application.

  1. The CPU application monitors such processor statistics as
    • Percentage of overall CPU utilization
    • Percentage of CPU idle time
    • Percentage of CPU time spent on user activities
    • Percentage of CPU time spent on system activities
    • Percentage of time spent waiting on input and output
    • Number of context switches per second
    • Number of non-VME device interrupts
    • Number of pages in and out per second
    • Number of pages scanned per second
    • Number of processes in the run queue
  2. The SMP application provides basic CPU utilization statistics for multiple processors on a computer.
  3. The KERNEL application provides information such as
    • Kernel Memory Allocation (KMA) statistics for small, large, and oversized memory requests
    • i-node usage
    • Kernel usage of system resources

The following sections appear in this topic:

 

Tip: For faster searching, add an asterisk to the end of your partial query. Example: cert*