Monitoring: AIX, IBM i, VIOS, Linux on Power
Tool gets data either from the HMC CLI (via SSH) or via HMC REST API.
Monitoring Resources
- CPU pool
- Shared Processor Pools
- LPAR
- Physical and Logical interfaces
- HMC
- Enterprise Pools 2.0 (PEP2.0)
Monitoring Metrics
- CPU performance (CPU cores)
- Memory allocation
- Eth/FCS/SR-IOV/SAS/IVE adapter performance (MB/sec, IO per sec, Latency)
Other Monitoring Features
- CPU Workload Estimator
- Resource Configuration Advisor
- Historical Reporting
- Custom Groups grouping of utilization from LPARs or CPU Pools in single graph
- Heatmap
- Live Partition Mobility graphical tracking
- WLM monitoring
- WPAR monitoring
- Trends
- Configuration
Additional detailed OS data can be obtained from AIX / Linux and IBM i OS agents running in LPARs.
AIX/Linux/VIOS OS agent metrics:
| OS CPU | CPU sys, user, IO wait |
| CPU queue | Load avrg, Blocked processes |
| JOB | CPU, Memory |
| Memory utilization | Used, FS cache, Pinned |
| LAN (ethernet adapters) | MB/sec, packet count |
| SAN (FC,vSCSI adapters) | MB/sec, IO/sec, Latency |
| Paging space utilization | Usage in % |
| Paging rate | MB/sec |
| Filesystem usage | Usage in %, GB |
| Active Memory Expansion (AME) | MB |
| Shared Ethernet Adapted (SEA) | MB/sec, packet count |
| WLM | CPU, Memory, DKIO |
| WPAR | All OS agents metrics |