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