10. Performance monitoring APIs

In this chapter we describe how to use the different Application Programming Interfaces (API) that are available. It contains information about how to use the Perfstat API to develop customized performance monitoring applications. We also describe the basic use of the System Performance Measurement Interface (SPMI) API and the Performance Monitor (PM) API. Finally, we show some examples of using other performance-monitoring subroutines that are available on AIX.

This chapter contains the following sections:

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