All Metrics, select the metric, than click help... that gives: Total Disk I/O Per Second Represents the rate of I/O (read and write) operations, calculated from all disks. Metric Summary The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Grid Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable). The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected. Target VersionCollection Frequency All VersionsEvery 5 Minutes Data Source The data sources for this metric include the following: HostData Source Solariskernel statistics HPpstat_getdynamic(), pstat_getprocessor(), pstat_getproc(), pstat_getstatic(), getutent(), pstat_getvminfo() system calls Linuxuptime, free, getconf, ps, iostat, sar, w OS commands; /proc/stat HP Tru64table() system call, uptime, vmstat, psrinfo, ps, who, swapon OS commands IBM AIXoracle_kstat(), getutent(), getproc(), sysconf() system calls Windowsnot available ----- Original Message ---- From: Chris Newman <cjnewman@xxxxxxxx> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2007 4:28:24 PM Subject: Grid Control Metrics Question Hi, In 10g Grid Control, if you click on 'targets', it defaults to a screen showing your hosts, and one of the measured metrics is 'Total IO/sec'. I'm seeing numbers like 3000.48 here. Can anyone tell me what that means? Is it blocks per second? Bytes? KB? Megs (Hope not)? I can't seem to find this information anyplace in the documentation I've seen. Thanks much - Chris -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com