Server status over command line

[GWhisper]

Hello,

I am working on several scripts to analyze the state of an IBM 3 processor server.

I am only given a "standard" user account, the OS department keeps the nice tools for themselves.

In order to accomplish this I was trying to get information from PS, IOSTAT and VMSTAT.

I tried to search more tools or something valuable for my script but failed.

Does anyone know where can I find any documentation?
Are there any more command line programs that I can use?
Being a standard user, does the system hide some information from me?

Thanks a lot.

 

[KenCunningham]

nmon?:

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/articles/analyze_aix/

 

[GWhisper]

Using the tool
You must be the root user or allow regular users to read the /dev/kmem...

I don't have enough privileges for that...

Any other option being a normal user?

 

[KenCunningham]

Can you negotiate to be allowed sudo access, (ie only allowing certain commands to be run effectively 'as root')?

 

[columb]

Alternatively there was a IBM article suggesting that topas could be suid up i.e. ask you sysadmins to

chown root topas
chmod 6755 topas
chown root nmon
chmodn 6755 nmon

Columb Healy