Monitor AIX 5.2 with Cacti

HPL1706 · Joined: 18 Nov 2008 Posts: 2 Location: Philippines

Greetings,

I am just wondering if i can ask for your assistance regarding Cacti and how to enable it with an AIX 5.2. Is there anyone who can provide me an instructions on how to collaborate the two? Like procedures or manuals? I have read about configuring the SNMP in AIX side for Cacti to be able to connect. But my problem is i dont know where to start.

Hope you can help me with my problem. Since this is my first time to handle both (AIX and Cacti), and it is my first project.

Thanks
- HPL1706

TheWitness · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:22 am Post subject:

AIX contains an SNMP agent, out of the box. However, I have been told that it is unstable.

There is a file, I think it's either

/etc/rc.tcpip

or

/etc/rc.d/rc.tcpip

That contains a few services that need to be uncommented. I think they are:

snmp?
snmpmibd
hostmibd
aixmidb

Then you need to configure the snmpv3.conf file. From there you should be able to startsrc -s snmpd, etc. Best bet is to call IBM though.

TheWitness