Description

The TEST command executes a disk write test to provide a simple measure of a file system performance. The write test is performed in a manner that simulates the I/O methods used by the OMS Server when writing OMS messages to the OMS message database.

I/O performance of a file system is dependent on many factors. A detailed analysis of the performance of an I/O subsystem is beyond the scope of this document. The purposes of the test I/O command is to provide general performance numbers to evaluate the suitability of the file system for the OMS server message database.

The test I/O command writes a specified number of 512-byte blocks to a specified file. By default, each block is flushed to disk to simulate the I/O pattern of the OMS server. The flush interval can be specified to match the configured flush interval of the OMS server.

Some general guidelines for performing an I/O test:

• I/O subsystem performance will vary considerably due to a number of factors, so the test should be performed a number of times to get a good statistical sampling.
• The I/O test file must reside on the file system being considered for the OMS message database.
• The OMS Administration Utility command must be executed from the system on which the OMS server executes. If the file system being tested is a network based file system, this is particular important in order to know the network performance impact as well.

The I/O test will print the results of the test as the number of blocks written per second. As a general guideline, the following table categorizes the message rate.

Command Line Syntax

The following figure illustrates the command line syntax of the TEST command, using the command line, long form of its command options.

-test io
    -iocount iocnt 
    -iofile iofile 
    [-ioflush ioflushcnt]
    [-codepage codepage]
    [-file cmfile]
    [-encryptedfile ecmfile [-key ecmdkey]]
    [-level msglevel]
    [-nls_directory directory]
    [-port port]

Command Options

The following table describes all TEST command options and provides the command line, long form of each option illustrated in the TEST command line syntax, above.

Examples

The following example executes an I/O test in the default OMS message database directory on UNIX systems. The example writes 1000 512-byte blocks to the test file iotest.

The user must have sufficient permissions to the OMS message database directory to create the iotest file.

The output of the above command will provide the number of 512-byte blocks written per second.