AIX Volume Group Reporting

AIX Volume Group Reporting provides reporting on the Volume Groups of an AIX system.

  1. From the required AIX System - Reporting Monitor main panel, click Add Field.
  2. From the Select Category dialog, select Volume Group.

This opens the Volume Reporting reporting dialog at the Volume Group Monitor Type.

Category section

Monitor Type

Leave this parameter set to the default setting of Volume Group.

Instance section

Volume Group

Either select the name of the Volume Group from the drop-down choice menu or use Wildcards or Regular Expressions (Regex) to define the name of the Volume Group on which reporting is required.

Selection section

Performance Type

From the drop-down choice menu select one of the following options:

  • Actual Physical Volumes: Reports on the number of actual physical volumes within the selected volume group
  • Allocated Physical Extents: Reports on the number of allocated physical extents within the selected volume group
  • Allocated Size: Reports on the disk space allocated to accommodate the selected volume group
  • Current Logical Volumes: Reports on the number of current logical volumes within the selected volume group
  • Current Physical Volumes: Reports on the number of current physical volumes within the selected volume group
  • Free Physical Extents: Reports on the number of free physical extents within the selected volume group
  • Free Size: Reports on the free space left within the selected volume group
  • Maximum Logical Volumes: Reports on the maximum number of logical volumes available within the selected volume group
  • Maximum Physical Volumes: Reports on the maximum number of physical volumes available within the selected volume group
  • Meta Sequence Number: Reports on the Meta Sequence Number of the selected volume group
  • Metadata Areas: Reports on the number of Metadata Areas within the selected volume group
  • Open Logical Volumes: Reports on the number of Open Logical Volumes within this selected volume group
  • Physical Extent Size: Reports on the size of the Physical Extent within the selected volume group
  • Total Physical Extents: Reports on the total number of Physical Extents within the selected volume groups
  • Volume Group Size: Reports on the total size of the selected volume group
Volume Group Display Status
  1. Click Display Status on the Volume Reporting dialog to display the current Volume Group Information for this system.
  2. Click the Show In... button to amend the view by which the partition size measurements are displayed. The possible display options are:
  • B: Byte
  • KB: Kilobyte
  • MB: Megabyte
  • GB: Gigabyte
  • TB: Terabyte
  • PB: Petabyte
  • EB: Exabyte
  1. Click OK to exit this display and return to the Volume Group Reporting dialog.

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