Whenever xmservd is configured to record the activity of the system where it's running, this prevents the daemon from dying as described in the Life and Death of xmservd section. The daemon considers itself to be configured for recording if a recording configuration file is present. Recording file names are azizo.yymmdd where the part after the period is built from the day the first record was written to the file. The recording activity for any one day always goes to the same file, even when xmservd is stopped and started over the day. For further details about how xmservd uses recording files, see the Retain Line section.
Recordings produced by xmservd have one or more statsets.
One is created for each sampling interval defined in the recording configuration file. Each statset is assigned a number equal to the sampling interval divided by the minimum sampling interval of the xmservd daemon. The recording configuration file must be supplied by the system administrator who configures a host. No recording configuration file is supplied as part of Performance Toolbox for AIX . If either file exists, xmservd considers itself configured for recording and parses the recording configuration file for instructions about when and what to record.