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Chapter 14. Monitoring and tuning z/VM and
Linux
This chapter briefly describes how to monitor z/VM and Linux. For another source on z/VM
performance and monitoring, see Chapter 11, “Monitoring performance and capacity,” in the
manual Getting Started With Linux, SC24-6096, on the web at:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/hcsx0b20.pdf
There are a number of z/VM monitoring tools such as CA’s VM:Monitor, the IBM z/VM
Performance Toolkit, the IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON® XE for z/VM and Linux. and products
from Velocity Software. The IBM z/VM Performance Toolkit is briefly described in this section.
There are also two sections on tuning z/VM and Linux using Cooperative Memory
Management (CMM) and the processor plug daemon, cpuplugd.
This chapter contains the following sections:
“Using INDICATE and other commands” on page 240
“The z/VM Performance Toolkit” on page 244
“Monitoring Linux” on page 254
“Viewing Linux data in the Performance Toolkit” on page 255
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