How does AppManager for UNIX version 6.5 determine swap information? (NETIQKB55314)

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How does AppManager for UNIX version 6.5 determine swap information?

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How does AppManager for UNIX version 6.5 determine paging in and paging out for Linux?

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AppManager for UNIX v6.5

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Red Hat Linux

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SuSE Linux

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NetIQ::Nqext::CounterValue( "UX Paging", "Page-in KBytes/s", "_Total" );

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NetIQ::Nqext::CounterValue( "UX Paging", "Page-out KBytes/s", "_Total" );

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For kernel version 2.6 and higher, the system process file /proc/vmstat is read and the lines holding values for these entries are used:

• pgpgin
• pgpgout
• pswpin
• pswpout

For supported kernel versions earlier than 2.6, the system process file /proc/stat is read and the lines holding values for these entries are used:

• page
• swap

Formerly known as NETIQKB55314