Deactivating Object Monitoring by SAPOSCOL

Use

You can remove selected disks or file systems from the monitoring by SAPOSCOL. SAPOSCOL then collects no data for these objects.

So that disks and file systems are monitored by SAPOSCOL under Windows NT/2000, ensure that the performance counter diskperf is activated with the command diskperf –Y.

Procedure

1. Create a file with the name
dev_filter that contains the names of the disks and file systems that are not to be monitored. The file content has the following structure:

$

...

The device ID can be either DISK for disks or FSYS for file systems. The entries are disks or file systems that are not to be displayed.

• Exactly one entry is allowed for each line; whether the entries are case-sensitive depends on the general specifications of the operating system.
• The asterisk (
*) wild card character is allowed; the character is permitted once for each name.
• The list can contain up to 2000 entries for each type.

The following file dev_filter filters out disk names that end with Total; it also filters out the file system C: and systems that begin with D :

$DISK
*Total
$FSYS
C:
D*

2. Save the file
dev_filter in the working directory of SAPOSCOL (see SAPOSCOL: Working Directory and Profile Parameters).
3. If SAPOSCOL is already running, you should
stop SAPOSCOL.
4. Delete the
coll.put file in the working directory of SAPOSCOL.
5. Start SAPOSCOL (see
Starting SAPOSCOL).

The platforms OS/390 and Sun OS do not support the filtering of disks/file systems.