Subject: LPARMon Graphical Monitoring Tool

Audience: All

Date: November 8, 2005

LPARMon is a graphical tool that monitors the overall performance of a partitioned Power5 server. The tool is available for download at

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/lparmon

LPARmon monitors entitlement, SMT state, processor and memory use by LPAR, and the size of the shared processor pool. There is also a history feature that displays an LPAR's processor use over time.

Supported operating systems include AIX 5.2, 5.3 and Linux.