Chapter 8. Monitoring and Auditing AFS Performance
| Part II. Managing File Server Machines |

## Chapter 8. Monitoring and Auditing AFS Performance

AFS comes with three main monitoring tools:

- The scout program, which monitors and gathers statistics on File Server performance.

- The fstrace command suite, which traces Cache Manager operations in detail.

- The afsmonitor program, which monitors and gathers statistics on both the File Server and the Cache Manager.

AFS also provides a tool for auditing AFS events on file server machines running AIX.

## Summary of Instructions

This chapter explains how to perform the following tasks by using the indicated commands:

Initialize the scout program | scout
Display information about a trace log | fstrace lslog
Display information about an event set | fstrace lsset
Change the size of a trace log | fstrace setlog
Set the state of an event set | fstrace setset
Dump contents of a trace log | fstrace dump
Clear a trace log | fstrace clear
Initialize the afsmonitor program | afsmonitor

Maintaining the Backup Database |  | Using the scout Program