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History Record—Click the History Record icon to view the trend of the Ping test
indexes in a past time period, which includes the response time, packets sent, packets
received indexes. The time periods you can view include the last 1 hour, last 6 hours, today,
yesterday, this week, this month, and this year. If you select the time period Last 1 hour,
Last 6 hours, or Today, the Ping test indexes is measured in unit of a polling interval; if you
select the time period Yesterday, This week, or This month, the Ping test indexes is
measured in hours, and the diagram displays the trends of the Ping test indexes, and the
maximum, minimize, and average values of the indexes; if you select the time period This
year, the Ping test indexes is measured in days, and the diagram displays the trends of the
Ping test indexes, and the maximum, minimize, and average values of the indexes. Move the
pointer over the each sampling point to view the Ping test result for the time being.
System load
APM can analyze and display the system load average for the monitored AIX in the specified time
period (one minute, five minutes, and fifteen minutes). System load average is the average number of
the processes running on the AIX system during a specified time period. Excessive system load can
cause performance problems, and the thresholds of system load vary across different types of CPU.
The System Load pane is shown in Figure 41.
Figure 41 System load
This pane contains the following information:
Curve graph of system loadDisplay the trend of the AIX system load average (system
load/1 minutes, system load/5 minutes, and system load/15 minutes) in the past one hour by
default. You can also select a time period to view the system load trend in the specified time
period. Click the Last 1 hour icon , the Last 6 hours icon , the Today icon , the Yesterday
icon , the This week icon , the This month icon , or the This year icon to select a time
period. The curves of different colors displays the system load trends in different time intervals,
which includes:
Green curveIndicate the trend of system load average (system load/1 minute) in the past
one hour.
Orange curveIndicate the trend of system load average (system load/5 minutes) in the
past hour.