AIX & Linux OS agent

LPAR2RRD OS agent is a solution for these of you who wish to get further metrics which can be obtained only from Operating System level.

CPU

CPU Queue

Memory

LAN

SAN

SAN IOPS

SAN RESP

More examples on our demo site.

OS agent metrics

• JOB TOP, CPU and Memory tracking of running processes graphically in the time
• OS CPU utilization of user/sys/IO wait/idle in %
• CPU queue : load average, blocked processes / raw / direct IO
• Memory utilization of used/FS cache/free memory in MB
• Paging rate in MB/sec
• Paging space utilization in %
• SAN (FC & vSCSI) throughput per adapter
  • data in MB/sec
  • IO/sec
  • response time (latency)
• LAN (ethernet) throughput per adapter
  • data in MB/sec
  • packet count
• Filesystem capacity utilization
• AIX SEA (Shared Ethernet Adapter) throughput per adapter in MB/sec (IBM Power only)
• AIX WLM (Workload Manager) monitoring (IBM Power only)
• AIX AME (Active Memory Expansion) allocation (IBM Power only)
• Solaris Memory Pools

Operating systems

• AIX 5.1+
• Linux on Power
• Linux x86
• Oracle Solaris
• IBM i
• AIX WPAR

Complete list of product features.

Implementation

it is implemented as simple client/server application.
There is LPAR2RRD daemon listening on the host where LPAR2RRD server is running on port 8162 (IANA official port assigned to LPAR2RRD project).
Each LPAR has installed simple Perl based agent which is started every minute from the crontab and saves memory and paging statistics into a temporary file.
The agent contacts the server every 15-25 minutes and sends all locally stored data for that period.

Agent prerequisites

• Perl interpreter. All Unix/Linux systems contain Perl in basic installation.
• It might run under whatever user account, it does not need any special privileges in the OS.
• Opened TCP communication between each LPAR and LPAR2RRD server on port 8162.
• Connections are initiated from LPARs.
• Additional disk space on LPAR2RRD server (about 40MB per each monitored LPAR)

OS agent release notes