AIX Host Template

hootjr29 · Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 20

sorry... forgot to mention that I unzipped the archive and imported the template without any errors. Everything said successful. Then, I went to add one of my aix hosts using this template. THat is when I got those errors above.

ALso, as far as the interfaces go, I didn't realize this, but the Generic SNMP template has the interfaces that seem to work fine for graphing network traffic. So, I think once I can get your template working good, I will be all set, since all I really care about is traffic and filesystem space... maybe in the future I'll do CPU and Users.

rony · Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 1:57 pm Post subject:

Did you copy the xml files from the resource directory in the zip file to the respective resource directory in your cacti installation? That should fix that problem.

As for CPU usage, you can add the Data Query "SNMP - Get Processor Information" to the host manually or if you are doing a lot, you can add it to the Host Template. This will give you the Host mib graphs, which will show you each CPU. I will look at the AIX CPU mib and see, I think it's a summation of all the CPU's but I'm not completely sure.

rony · Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 2:30 pm Post subject:

Checked into it, I can't find any CPU references in the AIX mib.

Also, has anyone has any success graphing hrSystemProcesses and hrSystemNumUsers from the HOST mib? They are standard graph templates in Cacti. For AIX 5.2, I consistantly get a warning that the type is wrong which doesn't make cacti, and most snmp query tools happy.

Anyone not having this problem, can you please post your oslevel -r.

Thanks,

hootjr29 · Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 20

mib/oid that gives you total users logged in:
This is in /usr/samples/snmpd/hr.my

rony · Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 8:38 am Post subject:

hootjr29 · Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 20

yeah... I noticed that about the users as well. Hopefully IBM can help us.

Oh... and for anyone who is using AIX 5.3. Have you had any luck with using SNMP? If I replicate the procedure that I mentioned earlier as far as getting SNMP up and running so that you can query it, I don't get the same results on AIX 5.3 servers.

rony · Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 9:25 am Post subject:

What results are different between 5.3 and 5.2?

Have you contacted IBM about it?

They are getting tired of hearing from me.... I keep talking to the 2 same people in the same area about snmp.

Attached you will find an updated template that has corrected the Volume Group Usage link and now includes the AIX CPU Utilitzation.

Edit: Attachment removed, later fixed version in post.

hootjr29 · Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 20

I'll try it out. I have contacted IBM a bunch too. Let me test a little more to verify that I haven't done something wrong on the AIX 5.3 side of things. But when I went through an initial test of just modifying the /etc/snmpdv3.conf file and including the aixmibd portion, restarted snmpd and all related services, I can't query some of the same things that I could query from AIX 5.2, such as aixFs or hrStorage. So its almost like public can't see those mibs.

I'll try again and keep you informed.

rony · Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 11:00 am Post subject:

Pay close attention to the exclude and include lines in the configuration file. They are proccessed in the order they appear in the file. So, if you have an exclude before you have an include, the exclude is applied.

Also, the order which you stop and start the daemons is important. Remember to start snmpd then the sub agents. When stopping them, don't forget to make sure they exit fully before restarting.

Personally go bit by both of these.

hootjr29 · Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 20

I'll try again within the next couple of weeks. I ran into an issue where SNMP is causing some issues with oracle. It seems that oracle has a listener or something that is logging tons of errors in the event log because of SNMP. I've disabled it on 1 of 2 AIX servers that I'm currently working with. But the template is working wonderfully with AIX 5.2. I will continue testing AIX 5.3 within the next couple of weeks...

Thanks again Tony!

joe

pbulteel · Cacti User Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Posts: 150 Location: London

Cool! Except that the import works, but I don't get anything...

I get a "NO SNMP data returned." -- see output below.

rony · Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 7:55 am Post subject:

Refer to the first post I made.

Make sure that you are running the aixmibd deamon and that you have configured snmpd to include the .1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.191 OID in it's tree.

pbulteel · Cacti User Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Posts: 150 Location: London

Duh!!! I thought I had done that, but I just noticed that the line that was in there said exclude. So I changed it to include and voila!

Thank you!

-P

rony · Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 2:36 pm Post subject:

Yah!

That one took me a while to find when I was working on it.

pbulteel · Cacti User Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Posts: 150 Location: London

I think I found a bug in cacti - probably the import.

What happened was my INodes graph (File System Statistics) was graphic correctly in preview mode but now when you went to view it I would get an error.

When I debugged I found that the problem was with the GPRINT.