IBM AIX - SCSI disks

Description

This connector provides hardware status information on the non-RAID SCSI physical disks on IBM AIX systems.

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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Superseded Connector

This connector is superseded by: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 (lsdev, pvdisplay, etc.)

Technology and protocols: Commands

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

• /usr/bin/dd

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 command listed above.

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

metricshub ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/dd

Examples

CLI

metricshub HOSTNAME -t linux -c +IBMAIXDisk --ssh -u USER --sudo-command-list /usr/bin/dd

metricshub.yaml

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

Connector Activation Criteria

The IBM AIX - SCSI disks 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: which lsdev
  • Output contains: /lsdev$ (regex)

Metrics

Type	Collected Metrics	Specific Attributes
disk_controller	hw.status{hw.type="disk_controller", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="disk_controller", state="present"}	controller_number hw.parent.type id info model name
physical_disk	hw.errors{hw.type="physical_disk"} hw.physical_disk.size hw.status{hw.type="physical_disk", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="physical_disk", state="present"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id info serial_number vendor