System monitoring with RMC/RSCT Post: 302924826

Sponsored Content

Operating Systems AIX System monitoring with RMC/RSCT Post 302924826 by bakunin on Wednesday 12th of November 2014 02:06:55 PM

11-12-2014

Registered User

Quote:

Originally Posted by blackrageous

I prefer something that is snmp/smux-based because managing the agents in my opinion is easier.

You surely have a point here, but SNMP (which quite oftenly is referenced as being the abbreviation for "security's not my problem") gets regularly bellyached about by security/compliance auditors. I use to have regular run-ins with auditors telling me to shut down SNMP, once even in HACMP clusters (which is impossible without shutting down the cluster software first). Having it running without SNMP being a conditio sine qua non makes for troublesome discussions at best.

rsct is one of the APIs IBM developed only to have nobody use it, as it seems. I know of no monitoring product which uses it and AFAIK the only software building on it is HAMP. Most monitoring software i know (HP-OV, BMC Patrol) use their own agents.

I hope this helps.

bakunin

These 2 Users Gave Thanks to bakunin For This Post:

bakunin

View Public Profile for bakunin

Find all posts by bakunin

8 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Monitoring system available time

Hi, I am new to Unix. I have an application which i need to monitor it for the available system time. If the system is down, i need to send an email notifying the downtime. Can someone provide a sample code or shell script to perform the above activity. Thanks

2. Programming

system monitoring api

Hi all, I am looking for api to get me system monitoring statictics every 5 minutes. I am looking at the following statistics: 1. System CPU Usage 2. Process CPU Usage 3. Process Memory Usage 4. I/O Usage for a certain disk. 5. Process I/O bytes/sec utilization. I have seen very...

3. AIX

Install fileset rsct.basic.rte

Hello! Please I need a help. AIX 5.2 5200-08 I don't have the fileset - rsct.basic.* installed and when I try to install from CD I have failure because some pre-requisists is necessary. In CD the version is rsct.basic.rte.2.3.1.0 and the pre-requisists is rsct.basic.rte.2.3.0.0. In...

4. AIX

AIX system monitoring

Hi All, I am new to administration. can any one pls tell me how can i accomplish the follwoing task in AIX : 1.The overall %CPU used, the %CPU used of each CPU, the overall Real Memory in KB is used, the total Real Memory is installed in the host, the overall Virtual Memory in KB is...

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

system monitoring script

Hi, Does anyone have an example system monitoring script to monitor drives, memory, etc. Need a good example. Cheers Walnutpony

6. Linux

Best Linux monitoring system

Hi all, I'm looking for the best tool to monitor the Linux system. I've found a lot of interesting tools searching the web but I didn't find one which can do all the requirments (like a one in all tool). I would prefer it to include a command line interface also. Thank you, Andreea

7. Infrastructure Monitoring

Best system monitoring for Linux

8. AIX

LPAR RMC state for DLPAR

Hello, I have checked the state of rmc on the HMC as below: HMC1:~> lssyscfg -r lpar -m Server-xxx -F lpar_id,state,rmc_state,rmc_ipaddr,os_version,dlpar_mem_capable,dlpar_proc_capable,dlpar_io_capable --filter "lpar_ids=4" 4,Running,inactive,10.176.x.x,VIOS 2.2.6.51,0,0,0 HMC1:~> lssyscfg...

LEARN ABOUT CENTOS

pmdasnmp

PMDASNMP(1)						       Performance Co-Pilot						       PMDASNMP(1)

NAME

       pmdasnmp - Gateway from SNMP to PCP (PMDA)

DESCRIPTION

       pmdasnmp is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which provides a generic gateway from PCP queries from a PCP client to SNMP queries
       to one or more SNMP agents.

INSTALLATION

       If you want access to the SNMP gateway performance metrics, do the following as root:

	       # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/snmp
	       # ./Install

       If you want to undo the installation, do the following as root:

	       # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/snmp
	       # ./Remove

       pmdasnmp is launched by pmcd(1) and should never be executed directly.  The Install and Remove scripts notify pmcd(1) when the agent is
       installed or removed.

CONFIGURATION

       TODO: define config file format here - map/set/host/... etc

FILES

       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/snmp/snmp.conf
	   optional configuration file for pmdasnmp

       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/snmp/Install
	   installation script for the pmdasnmp agent

       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/snmp/Remove
	   undo installation script for the pmdasnmp agent

       $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmcd/snmp.log
	   default log file for error and warn() messages from pmdasnmp

SEE ALSO

       pmcd(1) and SNMP

3.8.10							       Performance Co-Pilot						       PMDASNMP(1)