Can nmon be customized?

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi, my name is Steve Ngai from Malaysia. This is my first post. Hope to learn more about Unix from this forum.

My first question is can nmon be customized? When I run nmon, I need to manually type c to see CPU usage, then m for memory usage. Can I pass it some nmon option to automatically see CPU usage and memory usage from one unix command?

I tried to google it but couldn't find what I need. :slight_smile:

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What's nmon? My system doesn't have it.

But whatever system you are using may have a man page for it. Try this command:

man nmon

It may tell you command-line arguments or switches that will do what you want.

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Hi thanks for the reply. Nmon is a free tool to analyze AIX and Linux performance like "topas". I can't "man nmon" but once a load nmon, I can type "h" to see some options, but I still can't get what I want there.

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Hey guys, I found it already. The command is "export NMON=cmd", where c stands for CPU, m for memory and d for IO disk.