SOS Screen Selection Menu

Screen Selection Menu Screen

To access the Screen Selection Menu screen from any SOS display screen, type s at the SOS Enter command: prompt.

Figure 6.1 SOS Screen Selection Menu

To return to the SOS program from the Screen Selection Menu screen, press the Enter key.

Screen Selection Commands

To view one of the screens listed in the Screen Selection Menu, type the screen’s corresponding command key at the Enter screen ID: command prompt. Each screen is described briefly in Table 6.1. More detailed explanations are presented later.

NOTE All command keys are case-sensitive.

Table 6.1 SOS Screen Selection Menu command keys

Key	Screen Title	Description
g	Global Summary	Displays a basic, overall picture of your system’s performance. See "SOS Global Summary".
c	CPU Summary	Reports the general state of one or more CPUs. See "SOS CPU Summary".
m	Memory Summary	Provides a more detailed look at memory performance data. See "SOS Memory Summary".
d	Disk I/O Summary	Displays a summary of performance data for all disks on the system. See "SOS Disk I/O Summary".
r	Disk Controller I/O Summary	Provides a summary of the different kinds of disk read and write actions performed per second for each disk controller. The read and write actions are categorized as physical, user, system, virtual memory, or raw. See "SOS Disk Controller I/O Summary".
v	Volume Summary	Displays information for each logical volume and volume group. See "SOS Volume Summary".
i	Global I/O Summary	Provides information about local and remote I/Os from a system-wide perspective. See "SOS Global I/O Detail".
f	Files System I/O Summary	Displays the logical and physical read and write rates for each file system. See "SOS File System I/O Summary".
s	File System Space Summary	Shows the block and fragment size, space usage, and inode usage for each file system. See "SOS File System Space Summary".
l	Network Summary	Displays network performance information, including protocol data and network interface information. See "SOS Network Summary".
n	NFS Summary	Provides information about the Network File System (NFS). See "SOS NFS Summary".
w	Swap Summary	Provides information on system swap space utilization. See "SOS Swap Summary".
u	User Summary	Reveals how each user is utilizing system resources. See "SOS User Summary".
t	Terminal Summary	Displays information about the activity of the individual terminals. See "SOS Terminal Summary".
b	System Table Summary	Reports the configuration and utilization of several system tables and caches. See "SOS System Table Summary".
y	System Configuration	Shows significant system configuration parameters. See "SOS System Configuration Summary".
h	Device Configuration	Provides a listing of hardware and pseudo devices that are configured on your system. See "SOS Device Configuration Summary".
p	Pulse Points	Lists the key indicators of performance that appear on the Global Summary screen and categorizes each level of performance as acceptable, questionable, or unacceptable. See "SOS Pulse Points Summary".
k	Workload Definitions	Displays the application workload definitions (workdefs) file. See "SOS Workload Definitions".
P	Process Detail	Displays the performance of one process in detail. See "SOS Process Detail".
F	Process File Usage	Lists all of the files currently accessed by a process. See "SOS Process File Usage".
M	Process Memory Regions	Displays information about the process’ memory and virtual memory address space usage. See "SOS Process Memory Regions".
W	Workload Detail	Provides detailed information about a specific workload. See "SOS Workload Detail".
D	Disk Detail	Provides detailed performance data about a specified disk. See "SOS Disk Detail".
V	Volume Detail	Provides detailed performance numbers for a specified volume group or logical volume. See "SOS Volume Detail".
O	Oracle Main	Lists all Oracle instances, and shows some important metrics for each, as well as some aggregate statistics (summed over all instances). See "SOS Oracle Main".
L	Oracle Detail Latches	Provides latches statistics. See "SOS Oracle Detail Latches".
A	Oracle Detail Database Activity	Shows statistics related to database activity, locking, sorts, table scans, and changes. See "SOS Oracle Detail Database Activity".
N	Oracle Detail Mem and Net	Contains statistics about memory allocation and network transfers. See "SOS Oracle Detail Memory and Network".
K	Oracle Detail Rollback	Provides statistics about rollback segments. See "SOS Oracle Detail Rollback Segments".
C	Oracle Detail Cache	Displays the most important statistics related to Oracle cache management. See "SOS Oracle Detail Cache".
E	Oracle Detail Events	Shows statistics related to database events. See "SOS Oracle Detail Events".
B	Oracle Detail DBWR	Shows statistics about DBWR, the process that writes the modified buffers into a database. See "SOS Oracle Detail DBWR".
S	Oracle Detail Datafiles	Displays the first 10 data files in order of their activity (the most active first). See "SOS Oracle Detail Datafiles".