IBM Hardware Management Console (HMC) Version 8 or later

Description

This connector reports hardware errors that occurred during the day and provides the status of the System Attention LED of all IBM AIX servers connected to the Hardware Management Console. An ALARM alert is triggered for a hardware problem that happened during the day and is automatically cleared at midnight.

hardware ibm linux

Enterprise Connector

This connector requires the Enterprise edition of MetricsHub.

Target

Typical platform: IBM POWER

Operating system: Linux

This connector is not available for the local host (it is applicable to remote hosts only).

Prerequisites

Leverages: IBM Hardware Management Console (HMC)

Technology and protocols: Commands

Examples

CLI

metricshub HOSTNAME -t linux -c +IBMHMC8 --ssh -u USER

metricshub.yaml

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: linux
        connectors: [ +IBMHMC8 ] # 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 Hardware Management Console (HMC) Version 8 or later 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: Linux
• The command below succeeds on the monitored host:
  • Command: lshmc -V
  • Output contains: version.*Version.*[01289] (regex)

Metrics

Type	Collected Metrics	Specific Attributes
enclosure	hw.status{hw.type="enclosure", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="enclosure", state="present"}	id info model name serial_number vendor
led	hw.status{hw.type="led", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="led", state="present"}	color hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name