You can use the nis info command to display NIS performance statistics for your storage system.
The following example shows the statistics provided by the nis info command.
system1*> nis info NIS domain is lab.netapp.com NIS group cache has been disabled IP Address Type State Bound Last Polled Client calls Became Active ------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------- 172.16.100.72 PREF ALIVE YES Mon Jan 23 23:11:14 GMT 2008 0 Fri Jan 20 22:25:47 GMT 2008 NIS Performance Statistics: Number of YP Lookups: 153 Total time spent in YP Lookups: 684 ms, 656 us Number of network re-transmissions: 0 Minimum time spent in a YP Lookup: 0 ms, 1 us Maximum time spent in a YP Lookup: 469 ms, 991 us Average time spent in YP Lookups: 4 ms, 474 us 3 Most Recent Lookups: [0] Lookup time: 0 ms, 1 us Number of network re- transmissions: 0 [1] Lookup time: 5 ms, 993 us Number of network re- transmissions: 0 [2] Lookup time: 0 ms, 1 us Number of network re- transmissions: 0 NIS netgroup (*.* and *.nisdomain) cache status: uninitialized *.* eCode: 0 *.nisdomain eCode: 0 NIS Slave disabled