# ComputeAnalyzer™ Data Types

# LSF (Batch Jobs) [2]

This data type contains the data generated from each Load Sharing Facility (LSF) batch job at its completion.

# Classifications

Name Description
Project The job belongs to this project.
User The user name of the submitter.
Queue name The name of the LSF queue where the job was submitted.
Job status The exit status of the job.
  • OK
  • ERROR
Command The command that the job ran.
Exit status The exit status from the command.
Execution host The name of the first execution host.
Domain The first execution host belongs to this domain.
Number of exec. hosts The number of hosts where the job was submitted.
Number of exec. CPUs The number of CPUs used by the job.
LSF (Batch Jobs) Classifications

# Measurements

Name Description Unit of Measurement
Count The number of started and completed processes in the report intervals. Number
Time in queue The duration the job waited in queue. Hours
System time The system time used by the batch command. Hours
User time The user time used by the batch command. Hours
CPU time The number of CPU hours used by the batch command (User time + System time). Hours
CPU cost The product of the CPU hours and CPU factor. Number
Block I The block input done by the batch command. Blocks
Block O The block output done by the batch command. Blocks
Block I/O The sum of the block input and output. Blocks
Max RSS The maximum resident set size (physical memory used). Kilobytes
Max VM The maximum virtual memory usage. Kilobytes
Elapsed time The elapsed time from start to finish of the job. Hours
Total time The sum of Time in queue and Elapsed time. Hours
LSF (Batch Jobs) Measurements


# VMstat [3]

Vmstat is used to get information about the CPU and memory activities when SAR is inaccessible. This shows how computers haven been running instead of what they have been running.

# Classifications

Name Description
Host The host (excluding the domain) where VMstat is output to.
Architecture The architecture where VMstat was executed.
OS The operating system where VMstat was executed.
Domain The host belongs to this domain.
Prime time (deprecated) Specifies if the data collection time is prime or non-prime.
  • prime - data collected during prime time period
  • non-prime - data collected outside the prime time period
  • undef - the prime time itself is undefined
VMstat Classifications

# Measurements

Name Description Unit of Measurement
Count The number of times the statistics were collected. Number
Running queue The number of processes in the running queue. Number
Blocking queue The number of processes in the blocked queue. Number
User % The user time as percentage of the total CPU time. Percentage
Sys % The system time as percentage of the total CPU time. Percentage
Idle % The idle time as percentage of the total CPU time. Percentage
VMstat Measurements


# PSM-Shell [4]

# Classifications

Name Description
Host The host where PSM-Shell is output to.
Architecture The architecture where PSM-Shell was executed.
OS The operating system where PSM_Shell was executed.
User account The user account of the submitter.
User The user name of the submitter.
UID The owner of the file.
GID The group identifier of the file owner.
Exit status The exit status from the command.
Command The command the job will run.
PS-Shell Classifications

# Measurements

Name Description Unit of Measurement
Count The number of times the statistics were collected. Number
Elapsed time The elapsed time from start to finish of the job. Hours
CPU The number of CPU hours used by the command. Hours
Maximum RSS The maximum resident set size (physical memory used). Kilobytes
Integral RSS The integral resident set size (physical memory used). Kilobytes
Block I The block input operations done by the job. Blocks
Block O The block output operations done by the job. Blocks
PS-Shell Measurements

# LSF (LSF Acct) [5]

# Classifications

Name Description
UID The owner of the file.
Host The host where PSM-Shell is output to.
Command The command the job will run.
Exit status The exit status from the command.
LSF (LSF Acct) Classifications

# Measurements

Name Description Unit of Measurement
Count The number of times the statistics were collected. Number
System time The system time used by the batch command. Hours
User time The user time used by the batch command. Hours
CPU The number of CPU hours used by the command. Hours
Elapsed time The elapsed time from start to finish of the job. Hours
Block I The block input operations done by the job. Blocks
Block O The block output operations done by the job. Blocks
LSF (LSF Acct) Measurements

# SAR [6]

SAR contains many of the same variables as VMstat. It also has information about file systems or how heavily the file systems have been used.

# Classifications

Name Description
Host The host name where the statistics were collected.
Architecture The architecture of the host.
OS The operating system of the host.
Domain The host belongs to this domain.
Prime time (deprecated) Specifies if the data collection time is prime or non-prime.
  • prime - data collected during prime time period
  • non-prime - data collected outside the prime time period
  • undef - the prime time itself is undefined
SAR Classifications

# Measurements

Name Description Unit of Measurement
Count The number of times the statistics were collected. Number
User % The user time as percentage of the total CPU time. Percentage
Sys % The system time as percentage of the total CPU time. Percentage
Wait IO % The wait for IO time as percentage of the total CPU time. Percentage
CPU % The total time or sum of User %, Sys %, and Wait IO %. Percentage
Idle % The idle time as percentage of the total CPU time. Percentage
iget/s The file access routines. Number
namei/s The file access routines (path name lookups). Number
dirblk/s The file access routines (blocks read during directory lookups). Number
scall/s The number of system calls per second (all kinds). Number
sread/s The number of system calls per second (read system calls). Number
swrit/s The number of system calls per second (write system calls). Number
fork/s The number of forks per second. Number
exec/s The number of execs per second. Number
rchar/s The number of characters transferred by read system calls (HP-UX: block devices only). Number
wchar/s The number of characters transferred by write system calls (HP-UX: block devices only). Number
bread/s The read operations between the buffer cache and disk (or block device). Number
bwrit/s The write operations between the buffer cache and disk (or block device). Number
lread/s The average number of logical reads per second from the buffer cache. Number
lwrit/s The average number of logical writes per second from the buffer cache. Number
rchache% The cache hit ratio when reading. Percentage
wcache% The cache hit ratio when writing. Percentage
pread/s The read/s from character devices using raw I/O (physical). Number
pwrit/s The write/s from character devices using raw I/O (physical). Number
rq size The average size of run queue or processes in the memory. Number
rq occ% The percentage run queue occupied with processes. Percentage
sq size The size of swap queue or processes ready to run. This is unavailable on Solaris. Number
sq occ% The percentage swap queue occupied with processes. Percentage
swap in req/s The number of swap-in requests per second (AIX: page replacements cycles/s). Number
swap out req/s The number of swap-out requests per second (AIX: number of page faults/s). Number
swap in blk/s The number of 512 bytes units swapped per second (AIX: for Solaris, number of pages). Number
swap out blk/s The number of 512 bytes units swapped out per second (AIX: for Solaris, number of pages). Number
switches/s The number of process switches per second. Number
free swap The average amount of free swap pages available (HP-UX: N/A). Number
free memory The average amount of free memory pages available (HP-UX: N/A; AIX: N/A). Number
SAR Measurements


# IOstat [27]

# Classifications

Name Description
Host The host where PSM-Shell is output to.
Architecture The architecture of the host.
OS The operating system of the host.
Domain The host belongs to this domain.
Disk
IOstat Classifications

# Measurements

Name Description Unit of Measurement
Count The number of times the statistics were collected. Number
Numread/s The number of read requests per second. Number
Numwrite/s The number of write requests per second Number
Numread The number of read requests. Number
Numwrite The number of write requests. Number
Read/s The bytes read per second. Number
Write/s The bytes written per second. Number
Read The number of megabytes read per second. Megabytes
Write The number of megabytes written per second. Megabytes
Waitavg The average number of transactions waiting for service. Number
Actavg The average number of transactions actively being serviced Number
Wsvc_t The average service time in wait queue in milliseconds. Milliseconds
Asvc_t The average service time active transactions in milliseconds. Milliseconds
Wait The percent of time transactions are waiting for service. Percentage
Busy The percent of time the disk is busy. Percentage
IOstat Measurements

# WinSAR [36]

This data type is similar to SAR but is specialized for Windows.

# Classifications

Name Description
Host The host where the statistics were collected.
Architecture The architecture of the host.
OS The operating system of the host.
Domain The host belongs to this domain.
Prime time (deprecated) Specifies if the data collection time is prime or non-prime.
  • prime - data collected during prime time period
  • non-prime - data collected outside the prime time period
  • undef - the prime time itself is undefined
WinSAR Classifications

# Measurements

Name Description Unit of Measurement
Count The number of times the statistics were collected. Number
Proc DPC Time The percentage of time the processor spent receiving and servicing deferred procedure calls (DPCs) during the sample interval. Percentage
Proc Interrupt Time The percentage of time the processor spent receiving and servicing hardware interrupts during the sample interval. Percentage
Proc Privileged Time The percentage of the non-idle processor time spent on privileged mode. Percentage
Proc Processor Time The percentage of time that the processor is executing an application or operating system processes other than idle. Percentage
Proc User Time The percentage of the non-idle processor time spent on user mode. Percentage
Proc Interrupts The average number of hardware interrupts the processor receives and services per second. Number
Idle Processor Time The percentage of time occupied by the idle process. Percentage
Sys Exception (per second) The rate at which the system dispatches exceptions. Number
Sys Context Switches (per second) The combined rate at which all processors on the computer are switched from one thread to another. Number
Sys File Read Operations (per second) The combined rate of file system read requests to all devices on the computer, including requests to read from the file system cache. Number
Sys File Write Operations (per second) The combined rate of file system write requests to all devices on the computer, including requests to write to data in the file system cache. Number
Sys Processor Queue Length The number of threads in the processor queue. Number
Sys Total Interrupts The combined rate of hardware interrupts received and processed by all processors on the computer per second. Number
Mem Available (in Kb) The amount of physical memory immediately available for allocation to a process or system use. Number
Mem Cache (in Kb) The sum of the values of System Cache Resident Bytes, System Driver Resident Bytes, System Code Resident Bytes, and Pool Paged Resident Bytes. Number
Mem Cache Faults (per second) The rate at which faults occur when a page sought in the file system cache is not found and must be retrieved from elsewhere in the memory (soft fault) or disk (hard fault). Number
Mem Commit Limit (in Kb) The allowable amount of virtual memory to commit without the need to extend the paging file(s). Number
Mem Committed (in Kb) The amount of committed virtual memory. Number
Mem Page Faults (per second) The average number of pages faulted per second. Number
Mem Pages (per second) The rate at which pages are read from or written to disk to resolve hard page faults. Number
Phys Disk Read The rate of read operations on the disk per second. Number
Phys Disk Write The rate of write operations on the disk per second. Number
Logical Disk Read The rate at which read operations are performed on the disk per second. Number
Logical Disk Write The rate at which write operations are performed on the disk per second. Number
Cache Copy Read Hits The percentage of cache copy read requests that did not require a disk read to access the page in the cache. Percentage
Cache Copy Reads The rate per second at which read operations from pages of the file system cache involve a copy read. Number
Cache Data Flush Pages The rate per second at which the file system cache has flushed to the disk in response to a request to flush or satisfy a write-through-file write request. Number
Cache Data Flushes The rate per second at which the file system cache has flushed its contents to the disk in response to a request to flush or satisfy a write-through-file write request. Number
Cache Data Maps The rate per second at which a file system, such as NTFS, maps a page of a file into the file system cache to read the page. Number
Cache Fast Reads The rate per second at which read operations from the file system cache bypass the installed file system and retrieve the data directly from the cache Number
Cache Lazy Write Flushes The rate per second at which the Lazy Writer thread writes to the disk. Number
Cache Lazy White Pages The rate per second at which the Lazy Writer thread has written to the disk. Number
Cache Read Aheads The rate per second at which read operations from the file system cache detect sequential access to a file. Number
WinSAR Measurements


# Grid Engine [48]

This data type contains data on jobs run via Sun Grid Engine.

# Classifications

Name Description
Department The job belongs to this department (enterprise edition only).
Project The job belongs to this project (enterprise edition only).
Account The account string specified for the job.
User name The user name of the submitter.
Queue name The name of the Grid Engine queue where the job was dispatched.
Job name The name of the program which was run or a name set by the submitter or submitting program.
Job status The exit statuses from the Grid Engine and operating system.
Execution host This is the name of the host where the job was executed.
Resources The string consisting of "bat" or "int" for batch or interactive, respectively.
Number of slots The number of job slots assigned to the job execution.
Grid Engine Classifications

# Measurements

Name Description Unit of Measurement
Count The number of identical jobs. Number
Wait time The waiting duration before dispatching a job to a queue. Minutes
Avg wait time The average wait time for each job. Minutes
System time The system time used by the job. Minutes
User time The user time used by the job. Minutes
CPU time The total CPU time the job used (User time + System time). Minutes
Block I The block input operations done by the job. Block operations
Block O The block output operations done by the job. Block operations
Block I/O The sum of block input and output operations. Block operations
Max RSS The maximum resident set size (physical memory used). Kilobytes
Max VM The maximum virtual memory usage. Kilobytes
Wall time The elapsed time from start to finish of the job. Minutes
Total time The elapsed time from job submission to termination (Time in queue + Wall time). Minutes
Integral memory usage The integral of memory consumption over the lifespan of the job. Gbs (Gigabytes/second)
Grid Engine Measurements


# LSF Pending Reason [78]

This data type contains information on how long jobs are kept pending and why.

# Classifications

Name Description
Project The job belongs to this project.
User The user name of the submitter.
Queue name The name of the LSF queue where the job was submitted.
Pending reason The reason a job is still pending.
Command The command the job will run.
Domain The first execution host belongs to this domain.
Requested resource The string describing the resources that the pending job requires.
Number of hosts pending The number of hosts where a given pending reason was valid.
LSF Pending Reason Classifications

# Measurements

Name Description Unit of Measurement
Count The number of pending reasons in a report interval. Number
Elapsed time The elapsed time for selected pending reasons. Hours
LSF Pending Reason Measurements


# PBS Accounting [80]

This data type contains data on jobs run via Portable Batch System (PBS). The data can be collected from Open PBS and PBS Professional.

# Classifications

Name Description
User name The user name of the submitter.
Group name The group name of the submitter.
Account The account string specified for the job.
Queue name The name of the PBS queue where the job was dispatched.
Job name The name of the program which was run or a name set by the submitter or submitting program.
Exit status The exit statuses from the PBS and operating system.
Execution host The name of the host where the job was executed on. In cases where jobs require multiple CPUs, only the host running the MPI controller job is reported.
Resources The string consisting of the job requirements given in name-value pairs.
Number of CPUs The number of CPUs assigned to the job execution.
PBS Accounting Classifications

# Measurements

Name Description Unit of Measurement
Count The number of identical jobs. Number
Wait time The waiting duration before dispatching a job to a queue. Hours
Avg wait time The average time in queue for each job. Hours
Wall time The elapsed time from start to finish of the job. Hours
Total time The elapsed time from job submission to termination (Wait time + Wall time). Hours
CPU time The total CPU time used by the job. Hours
Max RSS The maximum resident set size (physical memory used). Kilobytes
Max VM The maximum virtual memory usage. Kilobytes
PBS Accounting Measurements


# Azure Sign-in Events [133]

Azure Sign-in Events is reported to view users' sign-in activity and details (including the authentication used and sign-in status) in a device, application, or service using Azure Active Directory.

# Classifications

Name Description
Time The start time of the work period.
User The name of the signed-in user.
Mail The email address or principal name of the user.
Status The sign-in status or event type of the authentication.
  • Success
  • Failed
Application The name of the application that requested authentication.
Authentication The type of authentication used.
Azure Sign-in Events Classifications

# Measurements

Name Description Unit of Measurement
Count The number of authentications. Number
Events The number of events Number
Azure Sign-in Events Measurements


# Azure Resource Usage Cost [134]

Azure Resource Usage Cost reports the workload in the cloud, which includes cost and usage data.

# Classifications

Name Description
Time The start time of the work period.
Cost The resource cost.
Cost USD The resource cost in USD.
Name The name of the subscription.
Charge Type The charge fee type.
Publisher Type The usage poller of the customer.
Service The name of the Azure service.
Group The name of the resource group.
Location The resource location.
Currency The currency of the Cost.
Azure Resource Usage Cost Classifications

# Measurements

Name Description Unit of Measurement
Total Cost The sum of cost per resource group. Number
Azure Resource Usage Cost Measurements

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