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Status Future consideration
Workspace AIX
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 10, 2021

Command-line program to expose perfstat_bridgedadapter stats

It would be nice if there was a command-line program that exposed the data from perfstat_bridgedadapter and annotated it with the vSwitch and VLAN(s) for the virtual side. it's not that hard except for the vSwitch/VLAN(s) where there isn't a documented API that I know of...

Something curses-based or graphical or producing an SVG or other graphic of historical data would be even nicer...

# /usr/local/sbin/lps_sea ent12 5 5
"Date","Time","Adapter Name","Adapter Type","Adapter Type Name","API Version","TX Packets/Sec","TX Bytes/Sec","TX Interrupts/Sec","TX Errors/Sec","TX Packets Dropped/Sec","TX Queue Size","TX Queue Length","TX Queue Overflows/Sec","TX Broadcast Packets/Sec","TX Multicast Packets/Sec","TX Carrier Senses/Sec","TX DMA Underruns/Sec","TX Lost CTS Errors/Sec","TX Max Collision Errors/Sec","TX Late Collision Errors/Sec","TX Packets Deferred/Sec","TX Timeout Errors/Sec","TX Single Collision Count/Sec","TX Multiple Collision Count/Sec","RX Packets/Sec","RX Bytes/Sec","RX Interrupts/Sec","RX Errors/Sec","RX Packets Dropped/Sec","RX Bad Packets/Sec","RX Multicast Packets/Sec","RX Broadcast Packets/Sec","RX CRC Errors/Sec","RX DMA Overruns/Sec","RX Alignment Errors/Sec","RX No-Resource Errors/Sec","RX Collision Errors/Sec","RX Packet Too Short Errors/Sec","RX Packet Too Long Errors/Sec","RX Packets Discarded by Adapter/Sec",
2021/12/10,15:35:53.728284,"ent12",1,"SEA",0,2066.40,3884589.60,898.80,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,44.00,16.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,3631.80,3994120.00,1956.80,0.00,0.00,0.00,16.00,44.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,
2021/12/10,15:35:53.728284,"ent11",4,"EC",0,1014.60,955095.20,898.80,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,2617.60,3039040.80,991.20,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,
2021/12/10,15:35:53.728284,"ent0",0,"physical",0,512.40,522776.80,461.40,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,1124.20,1265891.00,437.80,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,
2021/12/10,15:35:53.728284,"ent1",0,"physical",0,502.20,432318.40,437.40,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,1493.40,1773149.80,553.40,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,
2021/12/10,15:35:53.728284,"ent8",2,"virtual",0,36.20,6095.20,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,79.20,10711.60,58.40,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,
2021/12/10,15:35:53.728284,"ent7",2,"virtual",0,39.60,4559.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,
2021/12/10,15:35:53.728284,"ent6",2,"virtual",0,1.20,111.60,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,
2021/12/10,15:35:53.728284,"ent5",2,"virtual",0,973.20,2918580.60,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,935.00,944367.60,907.20,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,
2021/12/10,15:35:53.728284,"ent4",2,"virtual",0,1.60,148.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,

Idea priority Low