SOLARIS DISK I/O TRANSLATOR SHEET

Translator Activation Information

Name	Solaris 8 Disk (Solaris 2.6 Disk or Solaris 7 Disk)
Full Path on Server	/usr/local/APT/SOLARIS/DISK/aptx-sol-disk
Directory of Data Files	SAR data file location, usually /var/adm/sa

Installation

Gunzip and tar xf your downloaded distribution file. Change permissions to your local APT user, for example (assuming user apt and group perf):

chown –R apt:perf /usr/local/APT/SOLARIS

Grant the apt user execute permission on /usr/sbin/sar or alternate sar location. Grant read and execute on sar data files and their directory, usually /var/adm/sa

Edit /usr/local/APT/SOLARIS/DISK/disk-metrics.sol and add all monitored disks in the following format, where ID is a sequential number different for each disk:

disk ID name c0t0d0s1

disk ID device dad0,b

In this example, c0t0d0s1 corresponds to dad0,b. Use “ls –l /dev/disk” for device-name matching information.

Enabling Data Collection

See Solaris Translator Sheet for enabling SAR data collection