Performance Monitoring of AIX 2

[samirm]

Hi Gurus,

I have almost 15 AIX servers and of mixed flavour. AIX4.3.3, AIX5.1, 5.2, 5.3
I want to standardize the performance monitroing ( disk utilization, memory utilization, CPU utilization etc..) for all servers. Could you please suggest for the best option for implementaion.

Only making Shell script for monitoring and putting in Crontab is the solution? or if any tool is available, which I can configure for all AIX servers. I want to make some graphical presentation as well for all AIX servers too.

Please help ..

Thanking you ..

Sam

 

[sbrews]

You might want to take a look at nmon and nmon analyzer:

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-analyze_aix/

 

[spamly]

I'm not sure if nmon will work on AIX 4.3.3, but I know it works in AIX 5.x. It's a great tool. There are options to export data which can then be imported into a database of your choice or an excel spreadsheet for trending. I'd recommend this as a temporary solution.

For a long term solution, you should look into some Enterprise Monitoring products (Tivoli, Netcool, Concord, etc.) Solutions like these ride on native or add-on SNMP agents and will automatically build graphs for you. They're very helpful as they don't (necessarily) involve administration once you've implimented them.

 

[samirm]

Thanks to sbrews and spamly ..
And have a star for both of you...

Presently I am working on nmon and will do the exercise for other tools wich spamly reported (Tivoli, Netcool, Concord)...

Thanks again.

 

[grepper]

There is an older version of NMON that you can use for AIX 4.3.3. If you use nmon look at the nmon merge, rrdtools, and nmon charts tools. I'm using them to post server stats on our intranet for performance monitoring. Its really nice because with nmon charts, I've tweaked it to run almost real time 5 mins delay and its saved daily. If the business comes to me and says yesterday or last week at 2:00 PM we had a slow down I can go back and check it out. Before, if we did not find out right away we didn't have much to go on. And when we roll out new servers we can do performance testing with our DBAs and APP group and they can see the performance hits almost real time from where ever they are via the web. Really nice!

 

[khalidaaa]

When i attended the performance course the instructor was explaining using the nmon tool! And he brought an example with graphics using the nmon.

He also explained a chapter in "Performance Tool Box" which i've installed. It has nice interactive graphics!

Regards,
Khalid

 

[jprabaker]

Have a look at

http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/.

Hobbit Monitor used to be known as Big Brother, and more importantly is free!