Feasibility for monitoring linux IOPS.

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

How to monitor IOPS for linux servers ? Is there any feasibility to monitor through cdm or any other probes for linux servers?

Environment

Release: Any DX UIM

Component: CDM

Resolution

The IOPS (Read/Write operations) on the Linux server can be monitored using the CDM probe, which supports the following metrics:

• Iostat Reads Per Second
• Iostat Writes Per Second
• Total Iostat Writes Per Second
• Total Iostat Reads Per Second

For additional metrics, please refer to the technical documentation [CDM Metrics Documentation]

Note: CDM probe is using iostat to collect this information