Purpose
Gathers all the information necessary
to run the filemon and netpmon commands in off-line
mode.
Description
The gennames command
gathers name to address mapping information necessary for the filemon and netpmon commands to work in off-line mode. The information
gathered includes:
- the list of all the loaded kernel extension, similar to what the genkex command reports,
- the list of all the loaded shared libraries, similar to what the genkld command reports
- the list of all the loaded processes, similar to what the genld command reports
- for /unix and all kernel extensions and libraries, the
output of the stripnm -z command is collected
Flags
| Item |
Description |
|---|
| -f |
Collects the device information for physical and logical volumes.
It also prints out the virtual file system information used by offline filemon. |
Security
Attention RBAC users and Trusted AIX users: This
command can perform privileged operations. Only privileged users can
run privileged operations. For more information about authorizations
and privileges, see Privileged Command Database in AIX® Version 7.1 Security. For a list
of privileges and the authorizations associated with this command,
see the lssecattr command or the getcmdattr subcommand.
Examples
To collect information needed
for the filemon command in off-line mode, type:
gennames -f > gen.out