IBM AIX

Description

Applicable on IBM AIX devices. Monitors the CPU Utilization, file system usage, file system inodes utilization, volume group status, physical volume status, physical and logical volume usage and page space usage.

Prerequisites

SNMP should be enabled in end device and device should support IBM-AIX-MIB.mib OIDs and SNMP credentials should be attached against the device in portal.

How to Apply: This template is All instance selection based. It will not ask user to select any instance(s) while assigning it to a device.

Metric Parameters

Metric Parameters
Parameter	Description
Frequency	Frequency is the interval in which you want to probe and collect metric data from the target device/resource Frequency is defined in minutes (min).
Warning Threshold	If the metric value satisfies the condition defined along with Warning Threshold value, then a notification is sent to the user.
Critical Threshold	If the metric value satisfies the condition defined along with Critical Threshold value, then a notification is sent to the user.
Alert	The alert value can be set to either Yes or No. If it is Yes, then an alert message is sent to the user.

Metrics

aix.file.system.inodes.utilization

Metric Details

Metric Details
Applicable for	Device
SNMP OID	1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.6.2.1.7, 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.6.2.1.8, 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.6.2.1.3
Expression	(aixFsUsedInodes/aixFsNumINodes)*100
Description	Monitors the file system inode utilization. An inode is a data structure in UNIX operating systems that contains important information pertaining to files within a file system. When a file system is created in UNIX a set amount of inodes is created as well. Every time you create a file in the file system an inode is allocated to the file. Using the df command you can look at all mounted file systems or specific file systems. If for some reason a file system did reach 100 percent of its inodes used you will not be able to create additional files devices directories and so on in the file system. One solution is to add more space to the file system through the smitty chfs command. Other solution is to create smaller inode extents. [OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.6.2.1.2, 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.6.2.1.3, 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.6.2.1.7, 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.6.2.1.8]
Category	SNMP monitors
Collector Type	Gateway
Monitor Name	AIX File System
Unit	%

Possible Inputs

Possible Inputs
Metric	Input Value	Range of Values
Frequency	5	1 – 1440 (mins)
Filter	NULL	Not Applicable
Warning Operator	GREATER_THAN_EQUAL	Ends with, ==, !=, >=, <=, >, <, In Range, Out of range, Equals, Not equals, Equals Ignore Case, Not Equals Ignore Case, Contains, Not contains, Regex match, Regex no match, In string list, Not in string list, In List, Not in list, Starts with
Warning Threshold	90	0-100
Warning Repeat Count	1	1-12
Critical Operator	GREATER_THAN_EQUAL	Ends with, ==, !=, >=, <=, >, <, In Range, Out of range, Equals, Not equals, Equals Ignore Case, Not Equals Ignore Case, Contains, Not contains, Regex match, Regex no match, In string list, Not in string list, In List, Not in list, Starts with
Critical Threshold	95	0-100
Critical Repeat Count	1	1-12
Alert	Yes	Yes/No
Graph (Yes/No)	Yes	Yes/No

Sample Output

No graph

aix.file.system.utilization

Metric Details

Metric Details
Applicable for	Device
SNMP OID	1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.6.2.1.5, 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.6.2.1.6
Expression	((aixFsSize-aixFsFree)/aixFsSize) * 100
Description	The space usage on each of the file system. [OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.6.2.1.2, 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.6.2.1.3, 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.6.2.1.5, 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.6.2.1.6]
Category	SNMP monitors
Collector Type	Gateway
Monitor Name	AIX File System
Unit	%

Possible Inputs

Possible Inputs
Metric	Input Value	Range of Values
Frequency	5	1 – 1440 (mins)
Filter	NULL	Not Applicable
Warning Operator	GREATER_THAN_EQUAL	Ends with, ==, !=, >=, <=, >, <, In Range, Out of range, Equals, Not equals, Equals Ignore Case, Not Equals Ignore Case, Contains, Not contains, Regex match, Regex no match, In string list, Not in string list, In List, Not in list, Starts with
Warning Threshold	90	0-100
Warning Repeat Count	1	1-12
Critical Operator	GREATER_THAN_EQUAL	Ends with, ==, !=, >=, <=, >, <, In Range, Out of range, Equals, Not equals, Equals Ignore Case, Not Equals Ignore Case, Contains, Not contains, Regex match, Regex no match, In string list, Not in string list, In List, Not in list, Starts with
Critical Threshold	95	0-100
Critical Repeat Count	1	1-12
Alert	Yes	Yes/No
Graph (Yes/No)	Yes	Yes/No

Sample Output

No graph

aix.paging.space.utilization

Metric Details

Metric Details
Applicable for	Device
SNMP OID	1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.2.4.2.1.5, 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.2.4.2.1.2, 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.2.4.2.1.3, 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.2.4.2.1.4
Expression	aixPagePercentUsed
Description	This monitor is useful to determine how much paging is in use. If the amount of paging space is less than the amount of real memory in the system it is possible the system will run out of paging space before real memory [OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.2.4.2.1.1, 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.2.4.2.1.5]
Category	SNMP monitors
Collector Type	Gateway
Monitor Name	AIX Paging Space Utilization
Unit	%

Possible Inputs

Possible Inputs
Metric	Input Value	Range of Values
Frequency	5	1 – 1440 (mins)
Filter	NULL	Not Applicable
Warning Operator	GREATER_THAN_EQUAL	Ends with, ==, !=, >=, <=, >, <, In Range, Out of range, Equals, Not equals, Equals Ignore Case, Not Equals Ignore Case, Contains, Not contains, Regex match, Regex no match, In string list, Not in string list, In List, Not in list, Starts with
Warning Threshold	90	0-100
Warning Repeat Count	1	1-12
Critical Operator	GREATER_THAN_EQUAL	Ends with, ==, !=, >=, <=, >, <, In Range, Out of range, Equals, Not equals, Equals Ignore Case, Not Equals Ignore Case, Contains, Not contains, Regex match, Regex no match, In string list, Not in string list, In List, Not in list, Starts with
Critical Threshold	95	0-100
Critical Repeat Count	1	1-12
Alert	Yes	Yes/No
Graph (Yes/No)	Yes	Yes/No

Sample Output

No graph

aix.physical.volume.utilization

Metric Details

Metric Details
Applicable for	Device
SNMP OID	1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.2.3.1.1.4, 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.2.3.1.1.5, 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.2.3.1.1.2, 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.2.3.1.1.6
Expression	((aixPvSize-aixPvFree)/aixPvSize)*100
Description	Disk that is being managed by LVM. It monitors the total physical volume utilization. [OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.2.3.1.1.1, 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.2.3.1.1.2, 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.2.3.1.1.4, 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.2.3.1.1.5, 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.2.1.2.1.6]
Category	SNMP monitors
Collector Type	Gateway
Monitor Name	AIX Physical Volume Utilization
Unit	%

Possible Inputs

Possible Inputs
Metric	Input Value	Range of Values
Frequency	5	1 – 1440 (mins)
Filter	NULL	Not Applicable
Warning Operator	GREATER_THAN_EQUAL	Ends with, ==, !=, >=, <=, >, <, In Range, Out of range, Equals, Not equals, Equals Ignore Case, Not Equals Ignore Case, Contains, Not contains, Regex match, Regex no match, In string list, Not in string list, In List, Not in list, Starts with
Warning Threshold	90	0-100
Warning Repeat Count	1	1-12
Critical Operator	GREATER_THAN_EQUAL	Ends with, ==, !=, >=, <=, >, <, In Range, Out of range, Equals, Not equals, Equals Ignore Case, Not Equals Ignore Case, Contains, Not contains, Regex match, Regex no match, In string list, Not in string list, In List, Not in list, Starts with
Critical Threshold	95	0-100
Critical Repeat Count	1	1-12
Alert	Yes	Yes/No
Graph (Yes/No)	Yes	Yes/No

Sample Output

No graph

aix.physical.volume.status

Metric Details

Metric Details
Applicable for	Device
SNMP OID	1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.2.3.1.1.3
Expression	NULL
Description	State of the physical volume. If the volume group that contains the physical volume is varied on with the varyonvg command, the state is active , missing , or removed . If the physical volume is varied off with the varyoffvg command, the state is varied off. [OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.2.3.1.1.1, 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.2.3.1.1.3]
Category	SNMP monitors
Collector Type	Gateway
Monitor Name	AIX Physical Volume Utilization
Unit	None

Possible Inputs

Possible Inputs
Metric	Input Value	Range of Values
Frequency	5	1 – 1440 (mins)
Filter	NULL	Not Applicable
Warning Operator	EQUAL	Ends with, ==, !=, >=, <=, >, <, In Range, Out of range, Equals, Not equals, Equals Ignore Case, Not Equals Ignore Case, Contains, Not contains, Regex match, Regex no match, In string list, Not in string list, In List, Not in list, Starts with
Warning Threshold	3	[{"1":"active"},{"2":"missing"},{"3":"removed"},{"4":"variedOff"}]
Warning Repeat Count	1	1-12
Critical Operator	EQUAL	Ends with, ==, !=, >=, <=, >, <, In Range, Out of range, Equals, Not equals, Equals Ignore Case, Not Equals Ignore Case, Contains, Not contains, Regex match, Regex no match, In string list, Not in string list, In List, Not in list, Starts with
Critical Threshold	2	[{"1":"active"},{"2":"missing"},{"3":"removed"},{"4":"variedOff"}]
Critical Repeat Count	1	1-12
Alert	Yes	Yes/No
Graph (Yes/No)	No	Yes/No

Sample Output

No graph

aix.volume.group.utilization

Metric Details

Metric Details
Applicable for	Device
SNMP OID	1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.2.1.2.1.4, 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.2.1.2.1.5
Expression	((aixVgSize-aixVgFree)/aixVgSize)*100
Description	A volume group is a "logical collection of disks" and is the basic building block of logical storage in AIX. A volume group (VG) can span multiple disks whether internal or external disks. Volume Group is at the highest level in LVM hierarchy. Hard disks are used as Physical Volumes in Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Then Physical partitions are mapped to Logical Partitions. Logical Partitions are combined to Logical Volumes. These Logical Volumes comprise the Volume Group. [OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.2.3.1.1.1, 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.2.3.1.1.4, 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.2.3.1.1.5]
Category	SNMP monitors
Collector Type	Gateway
Monitor Name	AIX Volume Group Utilization
Unit	%

Possible Inputs

Possible Inputs
Metric	Input Value	Range of Values
Frequency	5	1 – 1440 (mins)
Filter	NULL	Not Applicable
Warning Operator	GREATER_THAN_EQUAL	Ends with, ==, !=, >=, <=, >, <, In Range, Out of range, Equals, Not equals, Equals Ignore Case, Not Equals Ignore Case, Contains, Not contains, Regex match, Regex no match, In string list, Not in string list, In List, Not in list, Starts with
Warning Threshold	90	0-100
Warning Repeat Count	1	1-12
Critical Operator	GREATER_THAN_EQUAL	Ends with, ==, !=, >=, <=, >, <, In Range, Out of range, Equals, Not equals, Equals Ignore Case, Not Equals Ignore Case, Contains, Not contains, Regex match, Regex no match, In string list, Not in string list, In List, Not in list, Starts with
Critical Threshold	95	0-100
Critical Repeat Count	1	1-12
Alert	Yes	Yes/No
Graph (Yes/No)	Yes	Yes/No

Sample Output

No graph

aix.volume.group.status

Metric Details

Metric Details
Applicable for	Device
SNMP OID	1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.2.1.2.1.3
Expression	NULL
Description	State of the volume group. If the volume group is activated with the varyonvg command, the state is either active/complete (indicating all physical volumes are active) or active/partial (indicating some physical volumes are not active). If the volume group is not activated with the varyonvg command, the state is inactive. [OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.2.1.2.1.3]
Category	SNMP monitors
Collector Type	Gateway
Monitor Name	AIX Volume Group Utilization
Unit	None

Possible Inputs

Possible Inputs
Metric	Input Value	Range of Values
Frequency	5	1 – 1440 (mins)
Filter	NULL	Not Applicable
Warning Operator
Warning Threshold
Warning Repeat Count
Critical Operator	EQUAL	Ends with, ==, !=, >=, <=, >, <, In Range, Out of range, Equals, Not equals, Equals Ignore Case, Not Equals Ignore Case, Contains, Not contains, Regex match, Regex no match, In string list, Not in string list, In List, Not in list, Starts with
Critical Threshold	3	[{"1":"activeComplete"},{"2":"activePartial"},{"3":"inactive"},{"4":"unknown"}]
Critical Repeat Count	1	1-12
Alert	Yes	Yes/No
Graph (Yes/No)	No	Yes/No

Sample Output

No graph

aix.aggregate.cpu.utilization

Metric Details

Metric Details
Applicable for	Device
SNMP OID	1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.1.2.1.0
Expression	NULL
Description	Provides CPU utilization. It is an aggregate view for utilization of multiple CPUs. aixSeCPUUtilization equals the sum of each CPU kernel time percentage and user time percentage divided by the number of CPUs. [OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191.1.2.1.0]
Category	SNMP monitors
Collector Type	Gateway
Monitor Name	AIX CPU Utilization
Unit	%

Possible Inputs

Possible Inputs
Metric	Input Value	Range of Values
Frequency	5	1 – 1440 (mins)
Filter
Warning Operator	GREATER_THAN_EQUAL	Ends with, ==, !=, >=, <=, >, <, In Range, Out of range, Equals, Not equals, Equals Ignore Case, Not Equals Ignore Case, Contains, Not contains, Regex match, Regex no match, In string list, Not in string list, In List, Not in list, Starts with
Warning Threshold	90	0-100
Warning Repeat Count	2	1-12
Critical Operator	GREATER_THAN_EQUAL	Ends with, ==, !=, >=, <=, >, <, In Range, Out of range, Equals, Not equals, Equals Ignore Case, Not Equals Ignore Case, Contains, Not contains, Regex match, Regex no match, In string list, Not in string list, In List, Not in list, Starts with
Critical Threshold	95	0-100
Critical Repeat Count	2	1-12
Alert	Yes	Yes/No
Graph (Yes/No)	Yes	Yes/No

Sample Output

No graph