On Friday 27 February 2009, David Bronder wrote: > In my environment, at least, only fibre HBAs with disk connected to them > appear in the nmon 'a'dapter screen, so my HBAs dedicated to tape drives > are not listed. With 8 HBAs, 2 for LUNs and 6 for tape drives, I only see > the 2 used for disk (oddly, fscsi0 and fscsi1, plus fcs1 but not fcs0) and > the planar SAS adapter for the system disks. Indeed, I just checked it on an AIX box with a tape-dedicated fiber card.
> So, unless you have disk and tape mixed on the same adapter (which I've > always been told was contrary to best practices), I still don't see a way > to get those numbers out of AIX (directly or derived). Or is nmon lying > about what adapters it's reporting on? fcstat can show statistics, so in theory, nmon can have the same numbers. I will try to contact Nigel about this. Stef
