HP-UX 11i System Administration Handbook and Toolkit, Second Edition

Standard UNIX Commands

To begin, let's look at some commands you can issue from the UNIX prompt to give you some information about your system. The commands I'll cover are:

• iostat

• vmstat

• netstat

• ps

• kill

• showmount

• swapinfo and swap

• sar

• timex

We'll first look at each of these commands so that you get an understanding of the output produced by them and how this output may be used. There are manual pages for some of the commands in Appendix A.

Please keep in mind that, like all topics we have covered, the output of these commands may differ somewhat among UNIX variants. The basic information produced on most UNIX variants is the same; however, the format of the outputs may differ somewhat. This usually is not significant if you're viewing the outputs; however, ...