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Chapter 2

Fault Isolation

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2.7.1

Using the iostat Command

The iostat command iteratively reports terminal, drive, and tape I/O activity, as
well as CPU utilization.

2.7.1.1

Options

TABLE 2-12

describes options for the iostat command and how those options can

help troubleshoot the server.

The following example shows output for one iostat command.

TABLE 2-12

Options for

iostat

Option

Description

How It Can Help

No option

Reports status of local I/O devices.

A quick three-line output of device status.

-c

Reports the percentage of time the
system has spent in user mode, in system
mode, waiting for I/O, and idling.

Quick report of CPU status.

-e

Displays device error summary statistics.
The total errors, hard errors, soft errors,
and transport errors are displayed.

Provides a short table with accumulated errors.
Identifies suspect I/O devices.

-E

Displays all device error statistics.

Provides information about devices: manufacturer,
model number, serial number, size, and errors.

-n

Displays names in descriptive format.

Descriptive format helps identify devices.

-x

For each drive, reports extended drive
statistics. The output is in tabular form.

Similar to the

-e

option, but provides rate

information. This helps identify poor performance of
internal devices and other I/O devices across the
network.

# iostat -En

c0t0d0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0

Vendor: SEAGATE Product: ST973401LSUN72G Revision: 0556 Serial No: 0521104T9D

Size: 73.40GB <73400057856 bytes>

Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0

Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0

c0t1d0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0

Vendor: SEAGATE Product: ST973401LSUN72G Revision: 0556 Serial No: 0521104V3V

Size: 73.40GB <73400057856 bytes>

Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0

Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0

#

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