On a Sun server I use the command:

iostat -x5

to display the that machines I/O status every 5 seconds. You can ignore the 
first screen presented because it usually contain junk numbers but everything 
after that should give you a "first look" as to whether drives are active, 
being streamed to or are in stop/start mode etc;. You can get the lo-down on 
this command via the man page I would suppose. I'd like to take credit for 
knowing this but I believe this info is from a note I took from this site many 
months ago. 

Regards,
Dennis

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Translation: Just because you've always done it that way, doesn't make it right

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Tampa Electric Company

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>>> "Crossman, Paul" <PCrossman AT navipath DOT com> 08/24/01 12:44PM >>>
I actually have found the website...  very useful stuff in there.  What I'm
after is what Legato Networker provides.  Under Networker's admin GUI, you
can view throughput to the tape drives in the jukebox in real time as jobs
are happening (backups, restores, cloning).  I want to make sure that all
the drives in the jukebox are running full boar when backups kick off.  I
want to make sure that they are taking all the data they can handle.

Veritas says that the UNIX box should be able to tell me this.  How?
Anyone?

Thanks, 
Paul C.


-----Original Message-----
From: David A. Chapa [mailto:david AT xbpadm-commands DOT com] 
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 12:38 PM
To: Crossman, Paul; Veritas-Bu (E-mail)
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Obtaining statistics on tape drive throughput


Paul:

Check out my Advanced NetBackup Scripting website
(http://www.xbpadm-commands.com).  I have a through put script up there that
will report on ALL media servers in a Master's domain as well as
individually.

David

PS.  It doesn't give you per drive thru-put however.

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DataStaff, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Crossman,
Paul
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 2:26 PM
To: Veritas-Bu (E-mail)
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Obtaining statistics on tape drive throughput


Hello everyone,

I just joined the list, and I've got an easy NetBackup question.

How can I obtain throughput numbers on the tapedrives?  Legato Networker
just provides you with the numbers,
however, NetBackup doesn't seem to say anything about device throughput.

Any thoughts and/or help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Paul C.

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