IBM AIX - CHRP Environment

Description

This connector provides hardware environment information on IBM CHRP-based AIX systems (temperature sensors, voltage sensors, fans, power supplies).

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Enterprise Connector

This connector requires the Enterprise edition of MetricsHub.

Superseded Connector

This connector is superseded by:

• IBMVIOS

Target

Typical platform: IBM POWER

Operating system: IBM AIX

Prerequisites

Leverages: IBM AIX system commands (machstat)

Technology and protocols: Commands

This connector requires advanced privileges on the managed host for the commands below:

• /usr/sbin/bootinfo
• /usr/sbin/machstat

This connector therefore needs to run as root or you need to configure a privilege-escalation mechanism like sudo on the managed host to allow the monitoring account to run the commands listed above.

Sample of /etc/sudoers to allow the above commands to be run as root by the metricshub account:

metricshub ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/bootinfo
metricshub ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/machstat

Examples

CLI

metricshub HOSTNAME -t linux -c +IBMAIXChrpMachstat --ssh -u USER --sudo-command-list /usr/sbin/bootinfo,/usr/sbin/machstat

metricshub.yaml

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: linux
        connectors: [ +IBMAIXChrpMachstat ] # Optional, to load only this connector
        protocols:
          ssh:
            username: <USERNAME> # Change with actual credentials
            password: <PASSWORD> # Encrypted using metricshub-encrypt
            useSudo: true
            useSudoCommands: [ "/usr/sbin/bootinfo", "/usr/sbin/machstat" ]

Connector Activation Criteria

The IBM AIX - CHRP Environment connector will be automatically activated, and its status will be reported as OK if all the below criteria are met:

• The device type must be one of: RS6000
• The command below succeeds on the monitored host:
  • Command: /usr/sbin/bootinfo -p
  • Output contains: ^chrp$ (regex)

Metrics

Type	Collected Metrics	Specific Attributes
fan	hw.status{hw.type="fan", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="fan", state="present"}	hw.parent.type id name sensor_location
power_supply	hw.status{hw.type="power_supply", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="power_supply", state="present"}	hw.parent.type id name power_supply_type