AIX Native Checks

                                

        
        

            
            

                

    

    
AIX Native Plugins


Unfortunaly there are not that much check plugins for AIX. Further almost all of them use other programs to access performance data. Therefore I was inspired by Perfstat API Programming from IBM to change those issues.


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Please feel free to send me an email to nagios.info@suedleasing.de if you have any questions.


The Checks


I have implemented three checks:


    

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    check_lpar_cpu
    

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    check_disk_io
    

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    check_network_io
    

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They are compiled as follow:


xlC -lperfstat -o check_lpar_cpu check_lpar_cpu.cpp

xlc -lperfstat -o check_network_io check_network_io.c

xlc -lperfstat -o check_disk\io check_disk_io.c


Settings


To use check_lpar_cpu properly, you have to enable one feature over HMC. This is shown in picture hmc_lpar_setting.png


HINT


If you compile the plugins on AIX Version 6100-06-04-1112 they will not work on AIX with lower versions.