[kaderh]

Hi ,

Anybody has implemented monitoring for VIO with SNMP , I mean the health monitoring not the data collection performance ? we have a Tivoli Infrastructure but our Infra is ITM5.1.2 and we are not prepared to go to ITM6.1 so we want in phase 1 implementing some SNMP monitoring to handle this situation.

Thanks

Kader Houchi
AIX sysadmin

[ross.mather]

Nope, I'm doing all my monitoring based on the guest LPARs. If I get a disk error or an Etherchannel error then I signal an alert in TEC for someone to check the VIO.

[kaderh]

Hi ,

Are you using logfiles of VIO or commands ? can you detail your response please ?

Thanks

[ross.mather]

OK, The VIO server does two jobs - it connects networking through. and it handles disk I/O.

What I do is in thwo phases:
1. Ethernets are one per VIO Server (I always use dual) and I etherchannel them at the LPAR level. If one of the interfaces goes down thenn we generate a TEC event based on that - just as if it was a physical error.

2. Disks: I allocate whole LUNS through the VIO servers - but in the event of a path to the LUN becoming unavailable then agan teh error log will note this and we generate an event.

3. TEC can the issue an error that one of the admins will go and chack the state of the VIo Server.

We do not do anything on the VIO server itself - will simply monitor the services that it provides to the LPARS based on the eroorlog monitoring already offered by TEC.

[kaderh]

Hi ,

I have not already played with VIO just begin to understand the concepts , if I undesrtand your response I can implement a TEC Log adapater based on the errorlog generated on the VIO ? my questions are :

1- where the VIO log it is errors ?
2- Are all errors logged on the errorlog?

Thanks

[ross.mather]

No, I base it on the errorlog on the LPARs that use the VIO. I do not do anything on the VIO at all.

[kaderh]

Thank You Ross.