IBM AIX - HBA

Description

This connector provides hardware status information on the fiber channel HBA cards 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Superseded Connector

This connector is superseded by: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, lsattr, fcstat, etc.)

Technology and protocols: Commands

Examples

CLI

metricshub HOSTNAME -t linux -c +IBMAIXHBA --ssh -u USER

metricshub.yaml

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

Connector Activation Criteria

The IBM AIX - HBA 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: /bin/ls /usr/sbin/fcstat
  • Output contains: ^/usr/sbin/fcstat$ (regex)
• The command below succeeds on the monitored host:
  • Command: /usr/sbin/lsdev -Cc adapter
  • Output contains: ^fcs[0-9] (regex)

Metrics

Type	Collected Metrics	Specific Attributes
network	hw.errors{hw.type="network"} hw.network.bandwidth.limit hw.network.io{direction="receive"} hw.network.io{direction="transmit"} hw.network.packets{direction="receive"} hw.network.packets{direction="transmit"} hw.network.up hw.status{hw.type="network", state="present"}	bandwidth device_type hw.parent.type id model name physical_address physical_address_type serial_number