Operating System Prerequisites

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Performance Analyst requires prerequisites for performance monitoring Windows 2000/XP and UNIX and Linux. The connectivity requirements for the various servers are minimum requirements. The other requirements are optional.

Windows 2000/XP Prerequisites

Connectivity

Performance Analyst requires the following minimum conductivity prerequisites:

  • Remote Registry Service should be running on the server if Performance Analyst is connecting to a remote machine. For local machine this does not matter.
  • Adequate permissions to connect to the remote computer's registry.

Other Requirements

Performance Analyst requires the following optional prerequisites:

  • Diskperf should be running on the server.
Note: You can start diskperf by executing diskperf -y from the command line.

UNIX and Linux Prerequisites

Connectivity

Performance Analyst requires the following minimum conductivity prerequisites:

  • Ability to connect to the server and execute commands on the server using one of the following protocols:
  • Telnet
  • SSH
  • Rlogin
  • Make sure that the appropriate daemon is running on the server and that the userid used for connecting has the permission to connect using the appropriate protocol.

Commands

The table below describes the commands that the connection Userid needs to have access to, to collect performance stats. The default path for the Userid on UNIX should be setup so you can execute the commands without qualifying them with a path.

Command Type Description Commands/Files

Common Commands

Required on all UNIX and Linux servers.

ps, wc, cat, grep, vmstat, uname, uptime, who, df, netstat

Linux Commands

User should be able to access data from these files

/proc/meminfo /proc/cpuinfo /proc/partitions or iostat

AIX Commands

Required for AIX

lsdev pmcycles usr/sbin/prtconf iostat lsps pagesize

Solaris Commands

Required for Solaris

/usr/sbin/psrinfo iostat /usr/sbin/prtconf /usr/sbin/swap pagesize

HP Commands

Required for HP

/etc/swapinfo sar permission to access the following: /dev/mem /dev/kmem /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log