Subject: pGraph Performance Graph Viewer

Audience: All

Date: August 21, 2007

Federico Vagnini has written pGraph, an excellent "freeware" tool for viewing AIX and Linux. performance graphs. The viewer works with multiple input formats, including

• nmon unsorted report, either on AIX and on Linux
• vmstat -t on AIX
• topasout <xmwlm recording> (AIX's continuous performance data collector)
• topasout <topas_cec recording> on AIX
• iostat -alDT on AIX
• HMC's data collection extracted using lslparutil command
• Workload Partition data collected on AIX6 (currently tested only on Open Beta)

You can download pGraph from

http://www-941.ibm.com/collaboration/wiki/display/WikiPtype/Performance+Graph+Viewer

One way to run the program is from a DOS window on your PC. They syntax I use is

java -jar pGraph.jar

Then choose the file.