Useful OS Commands/Utilities for Oracle Databases on IBM AIX environments

In this post, I have compiled some useful Commands/Utilities for running Oracle Databases on IBM AIX environments.


Gives useful resource/info about the LPAR/Virtual Server:
$ lparstat -I


The following utilities (topas and nmon) Gives useful resource consumption about the LPAR/Virtual Server (:
$ nmon
       -> h
┌─HELP─────────most-keys-toggle-on/off───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│h = Help information     q = Quit nmon             0 = reset peak counts                                │
│+ = double refresh time  - = half refresh          r = ResourcesCPU/HW/MHz/AIX                          │
│c = CPU by processor     C=upto 1024 CPUs          p = LPAR Stats (if LPAR)                             │
│l = CPU avg longer term  k = Kernel Internal       # = PhysicalCPU if SPLPAR                            │
│m = Memory & Paging      M = Multiple Page Sizes  P = Paging Space                                      │
│d = DiskI/O Graphs       D = DiskIO +Service times o = Disks %Busy Map                                  │
│a = Disk Adapter         e = ESS vpath stats       V = Volume Group stats                               │
│^ = FC Adapter (fcstat)  O = VIOS SEA (entstat)    v = Verbose=OK/Warn/Danger                           │
│n = Network stats        N=NFS stats (NN for v4)   j = JFS Usage stats                                  │
│A = Async I/O Servers    w = see AIX wait procs   "="= Net/Disk KB<-->MB                                │
│b = black&white mode     g = User-Defined-Disk-Groups (see cmdline -g)                                  │
│t = Top-Process --->     1=basic 2=CPU-Use 3=CPU(default) 4=Size 5=Disk-I/O                             │
│u = Top+cmd arguments    U = Top+WLM Classes       . = only busy disks & procs                          │
│W = WLM Section          S = WLM SubClasses        @=Workload Partition(WPAR)                           │
│[ = Start ODR            ] = Stop ODR              i = Top-Thread                                       │
│~ = Switch to topas screen 

$ topas
       -> h
One-character commands:
  @ - Pressing the '@' key repeatedly toggles to wpar and normal mode
  a - Show all the variable subsections being monitored. Pressing the
      the 'a' key always returns topas to the main initial display.
  c - Pressing the 'c' key repeatedly toggles the CPU subsection
      between the cumulative report, off, and a list of busiest CPUs.
  d - Pressing the 'd' key repeatedly toggles the disk subsection between
      total disk, off, and busiest disks list activity for the system.
  t - Pressing the 't' key repeatedly toggles the tape subsection between
      total tape, off, and busiest tape list activity for the system.
  f - Pressing the 'f' key repeatedly toggles the file system subsection
      between total file system, off, and busiest file system list activity
      for the system.Also Moving the cursor over a WLM class and pressing 'f'
      shows the list of top processes in the class on the bottom of the
      screen(WLM Display Only).Similarly moving the cursor over a WPAR name and
      pressing'f' shows the list of top file system belonging to that wpar
      on the bottom of the screen(FS Display with @ option only)
  e - Pressing the 'e' key repeatedly toggles between the AME and NFS
      subsections. The key has no effect if AME(Active memory expansion)
      is not enabled in the machine.
  n - Pressing the 'n' key repeatedly toggles the network interfaces subsection
      between total network, off, and busiest interfaces list activity.
  p - Pressing the 'p' key toggles the hot processes subsection on and off.
  P - Toggle to the Full Screen Process Display
  q - Quit the program                                                           r - Refresh the screenGives useful resource consumption about the System Memory info (Including Large Page Consumption/Information):
$ svmon
Gives Disk Usage Information on/attached-to the LPAR:
$ df -g