Verify that the snapshot queue is empty

1. Open a command prompt window.

2. Navigate to the ..\PI\adm directory.

3. Enter: piartool -ss

Examples

The display shows counter output:

Counters for 8-Sep-06 11:51:44
Point Count: 364 0
Snapshot Events: 518157 0
Out of Order Snapshot Events: 0 0
Snapshot Event Reads: 154276 0
Events Sent to Queue: 308873 0
Events in Queue: 0 0
Number of Overflow Queues: 0 0
Total Overflow Events: 0 0
Estimated Remaining Capacity: 2590182 0

The display updates periodically.

As you monitor the Events in Queue parameter, you may occasionally see the value grow greater than 0 and then become 0. This indicates that the queue is receiving time-series events from the snapshot subsystem, and that the archive subsystem is able to send the data to the archives.