I use the linmon package off the tools disk to collect monitor data. At 23:59, I have VMUTIL do a SET SECUSER and then send the linmon service machine a MONWSTOP followed by a MONSETUP. This really helps with the time drift you get in MONWRITE DISK CLOSE 1440. I get a nice, clean full day's worth of monitor data to feed into PERFKIT reporting.
________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Rohling Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 4:08 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Separating monitor records by date Using the pipe Jonathan gave me -- I was able to figure out that there actually was no 2nd day's worth of data in the monitor file ... but I think you're right - you really want that initial config info at the start of the file. I had the same question about the report builder.. it's probably possible - but they really want keep things in daily files. <shrug> Thanks for the responses! I got enough info from Jonathan's pipe to figure out what datestamp I was looking for, and that got me far enough in this case. Thanks, Jonathan! Scott On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Kris Buelens <kris.buel...@gmail.com> wrote: I don't think it is that easy: when MONWRITE is started it includes "configuration" information in the monitor file, if you split it up, the second file won't have this information. But, why do you need to split it up? Can't you tell your "report builder" to limit its reports to a given timespan? 2010/2/11 Quay, Jonathan (IHG) <jonathan.q...@ihg.com> Quick and dirty... figure out midnight on the 2nd day. e.g... Pipe literal 2010-02-10 00:00:00.000000 | dateconv isodate todabs | spec 1-* c2x 1 and then either browse for it in the file or feed it in to a comparison against the timestamp in the monitor records. ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Rohling Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 10:54 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Separating monitor records by date We have a daily monitor file from MONWRITE that ended up with 2 days worth of monitor records. Is anyone aware of a utility, or pipe incantation, or anything else that could be used to separate the file into 2 daily files? Thanks for any tips you can give - Scott -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
