AIX Host Template

morrisdavidj · Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 6 Location: Washington State

I recently installed 0.8.6d on another box. I was able to import these AIX templates and get up and going without problem in a 0.8.6c environment. I am now receiving the following error:

Warning: Variable passed to each() is not an array or object

In looking at other posts, it appears that this can sometimes be fixed with making sure the path name is correct in the data queries and that the .xml files exist in that location. These check out as okay here.

What seems to be the key to importing templates created in a different version of cacti?

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

rony · Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 11:14 am Post subject:

Did you remember to copy the resource XML file to the resource directory?

morrisdavidj · Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 6 Location: Washington State

Tony,

The .xml files exist in /resources/snmp_queries/ and the data query shows "successfully located xml file."

When clicking on the associated graph template, the "not an array or object" error comes up with each data source.

rony · Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 11:55 am Post subject:

Have you tried reloading the template?

morrisdavidj · Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 6 Location: Washington State

Tony,

I did try and reload the template, still receiving the same error. The error only occurs on the templates associated with a data query. The CPU template which does not rely on a query works fine.

rony · Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 1:00 pm Post subject:

All templates related to any data query?

morrisdavidj · Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 6 Location: Washington State

Tony,

Sorry, I was referring only to the AIX templates. The default templates which are included in the Cacti installation that run from a data query work fine.

hootjr29 · Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 20

Tony or anyone else,

Has anyone been able to monitor memory used in AIX?

kiw0r · Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 18

Anybody have a good SNMP agent for AIX that :

- don't segfault
- give interface statistic without blocking it self
- works on 64bits machines as well ?

Because this "snmp" on original AIX is really a blooooooody pain in the ass.....

/Xavier

rony

kiw0r · Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 18

afieffe · Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 7 Location: Paris, France

Hi,

The only way i've found to monitor memory usage and activity on my AIX boxes is to user the perf agent from IBM.

It provides a lot of stats about the host activity :
http://www.oidview.com/mibs/2/XMSERVD-PERF-MIB.html

Regards

Obi-Wan-YJ · Joined: 21 Sep 2005 Posts: 2 Location: Lincoln, NE

I'm using the AIX template on our 5.2 boxen, and it works great. However, I'd really like to be able to monitor disk I/O, similar to what's available from "iostat -d" or "topas". Is there an easy way to pull this via remote SNMP? I don't see it in the AIX template posted earlier.

I don't have the extra Performance Aide (PTX) package installed, and I don't intend to pay for it just to be able to monitor disk throughput.

rony · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 11:56 am Post subject:

I think you do need that package to get those stats through SNMP. Otherwise, you can use utilties such as Nmon to export them to a text file and then read them with cacti that way.

hootjr29 · Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 20

Tony,

Have you been able to monitor uptime in AIX? I've tried some the other uptime scripts in this forum that referent hrSystemUptime. When I use that on my linux and windows systems, everything works fine. However, in AIX the graph shows a number that seems to be days that its been up. But the graph never changes like it does for windows and linux.

Any suggestions?

Joe