Last Update 2000-05-15 by kcarlson
Reporting Unicos and Unicos/mk System Utilization
The end results: (Objectives)
- Historical summary (trend analysis and capacity planning)
- Responsiveness and service measures (expansion factors)
- Project resource accounting summaries and reports
- Reduced data for ad hoc reporting
- Understanding of raw data sources
- Data source for problem isolation
How to get there: (Methods)
- The Data: pacct and nqacct
- Tools: acctcom and uakpacct
- Consolodation: csarun
- Data Archival
- Basic Reporting: csacon and csajrep
- Enhanced Reporting: csagfef and custom
Along the Way: (Lessons)
- Accounting data for problem isolation
- Examples
- Where accounting data does not help
- Other data sources: audit records, ps, uaklogin, ...
- Building Super-record of "known data"
- For report verification, for understanding
- What do check-pointed jobs look like?
- What do T3E MPP jobs look like?
- What do restarted/rerun jobs look like?
- Expansion Factors (or Expansion Fiction):
- What they are good for
- The Myth: Why they are not so good
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