Disk Usage Workspace

The Disk Usage workspace is comprised of four views and provides an at-a-glance snapshot of your disk condition. The views for this workspace are:

The Disk Utilization for Mount Point workspace and the Disk Usage Details workspace can be accessed by right-clicking this workspace.

 

Space Used % - Top Ten

This chart provides information on the top ten subdirectories using hard drive space.

Inodes Used % - Top Ten

This chart presents a diagramtic view of the percent of inodes used by the top ten drive space components.

Disk Utilization

The Disk Utilization report helps you solve disk related problems quickly by providing information on devices with excessive I/O activity and/or long service times. New data includes average disk queue length and average number of processes waiting for service.

Using the UNIX Disk Performance report

By viewing monitored disk input/output (I/O) data collected by the UNIX agents, you can:

Monitoring disk performance

You monitor the performance of disks in your system to make sure they operate smoothly. Disk performance has a major impact on the overall functioning of your UNIX system. If disk performance is poor, it affects jobs that require a large amount of disk I/O, virtual memory functioning, and the time required to run a program.

Use this report to identify disk performance problems caused by slow rates of data transfer from disk to memory, or high disk usage.

Disk Busy %

This graph shows monitored disk input/output (I/O) data collected by the UNIX OS Agents. With this information you can:

 

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