Capacity planning/monitoring AIX 1

[alexia32]

Hello

Can someone give me some idea of nice tool to use to measure system usage and get some trends (graphs daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly , yearly...)

I am using nmon but this is on daily basis. (graphs with rddtool)
I am using also the HMC (lpar2rrd, only for virtual cpu)

But I still don;t have (a free ) tool that can give me full data and generate graphs and make a report monthly, quarterly etc...

I see there is a tool name Ganglia but apparently complicated to install (I mean to much rpm apache2 etc... complicated on my env.)

If you know any free tool that can provide this will help me a lot..
Cheers
Al

 

[khalidaaa]

IBM Performance Toolbox (though i'm not sure if it is free)

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoc...om.ibm.aix.prfusrgd/doc/prfusrgd/ch01body.htm

IBM Systems Director

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoc...BM Systems directors&searchRank=3&pageDepth=0

I think it is a free tool from IBM.

Regards,
Khalid

 

[alexia32]

Thanks Khalid

I found out a tool propose by IBM named GANGLIA.
I tried to install the rpm but it is not that simple on the web server side.

I will open a new post to see if some people done it before.

But thanks for the link.
For the moment I am just using nmon (generated every day and create automatic trend) but not that nice as I can see what Ganglia offers...

Cheers
Al

 

[mrn]

You pretty much already have all the tools you need. Read this.

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247071.pdf

Mike

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