Topics: AIX, Monitoring, System Admin
Boxes and lines in NMON
Usually, with the default settings used with NMON, along with using PuTTY on a Windows system, you may notice that the boxes and lines in NMON are not displayed correctly. It may look something like this:
An easy fix for this issue is to change the character set translation within PuTTY. In the upper left corner of your PuTTY window, click the icon and select "Change Settings". Then navigate to Window -> Translation. In the "Remote character set" field, change "UTF-8" to "ISO-8859-1".
Once changed, restart PuTTY and it should something like this:
Another option is to stop using boxes and lines altogether. You can do this by starting nmon with the -B option:
# nmon -BOr you can set the NMON environment variable to the same:
# export NMON=B # nmon
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