nmon analyzer

I am often working on systems with large number of LUNs, going into the hundreds. Trying to keep track is difficult at best. Sometimes though you might want to limit yourself to a specific number of disks-I knew about the dskfilt option in collectl but only today learned about a similar feature in nmon. The following is a very greatly simplified example of course, but it gives you the idea.

Assume you are interested in 4 disks-sd{a,b,c,d}. Let’s further assume that your disks are used for 2 ASM disk groups, DATA and RECO. You could create a file “disks.dat” with the following contents:

DATA sda sdb
RECO sdc sdd

Then pass that file to nmon with the -g flag. When you type “g” now, you are shown IO stats for those disks.