System Overview (historical report indicating system operation status)

Overview

The System Overview report displays minute-by-minute historical information about the operation status for a system over the last hour. The information is displayed as a table and a line graph.

Storage destination

Reports/UNIX/Troubleshooting/Recent Past/

Record

System Summary Overview (PI)

Fields

Field nameExplanation
Block ReadsNumber of times block read processing occurred.
To display an I/O Overview report, click this field.
CPU %CPU usage (%).
This is also the average value of the percentage for each processor (for AIX V6.1 or later, it includes processors after logical partitioning by the Micro-Partitioning function).
To display a CPU Usage Summary report, click this field.
Major FaultsNumber of page faults that invoked physical I/O.
To display a Memory Paging report, click this field.
NFS Client Total Bad OpsThe total number of times processing failed on the NFS client.
To display an NFS Activity Overview report, click this field.
Swapped-In Pages/secFrequency at which pages were taken in by swap-in processing (number of pages per second).
On AIX, the frequency at which paging area pages only were taken in by swap-in processing (number of pages per second).
Swapped-Out Pages/secFrequency at which pages were taken out by swap-out processing (number of pages per second).
On AIX, the frequency at which paging area pages only were taken out by swap-out processing (number of pages per second).
Total Pkts InThe combined total of IPv4 TCP packets received, IPv4 UDP packets received, and IPv4 ICMP packets received. In 09-00 or later, the total number of packets for IPv4 or IPv6 is displayed.
To display a Network Overview report, click this field.
Wait %Percentage of time in I/O waiting status (%).
This is also the average value of the percentage for each processor (for AIX V6.1 or later, it includes processors after logical partitioning by the Micro-Partitioning function).

Drilldown report (field level)

Report nameExplanation
CPU Usage SummaryDisplays minute-by-minute historical information about the CPU usage over the last hour.
To display this report, click the CPU % field.
I/O OverviewDisplays minute-by-minute historical information about the number of I/Os over the last hour.
To display this report, click the Block Reads field.
This report cannot be used on Linux.
Memory PagingDisplays minute-by-minute historical information about the memory usage status over the last hour.
To display this report, click the Major Faults field.
This report cannot be used on Linux.
Network OverviewDisplays minute-by-minute historical information about the network usage status over the last hour.
To display this report, click the Total Pkts In field.
NFS Activity OverviewDisplays minute-by-minute historical information about the operation status of the NFS client and NFS server over the last hour.
To display this report, click the NFS Client Total Bad Ops field.
This report cannot be used on Linux.