Description

This connector enables hardware monitoring through the IBM Director Agent version 5.x which supports some (not all) xSeries servers.

This connector supersedes:

• IpmiTool^[2]
• VMwareESX4i^[3]
• VMwareESXi^[4]
• VMwareESXiDisksIPMI^[5]
• VMwareESXiDisksStorage^[6]

enterprise^[7] hardware^[8] ibm^[9] linux^[10]

Target

Typical platform: IBM xSeries

Operating system: Linux

Prerequisites

Leverages: IBM Director Agent 5.10.x

Technology and protocols: WBEM

Examples

metricshub HOSTNAME -t linux -c +Director5Linux --wbem -u USER

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: linux
        connectors: [ +Director5Linux ] # Optional, to load only this connector
        protocols:
          wbem:
            protocol: https
            port: 5989
            username: <USERNAME> # Change with actual credentials
            password: <PASSWORD> # Encrypted using metricshub-encrypt

Connector Activation Criteria

The IBM Director Agent 5.10.x - Linux connector will be automatically activated, and its status will be reported as OK if all the below criteria are met:

• Operating System is Linux
• At least one process for which the command line matches with the regular expression below is running:
  cimserver
• The WBEM query below to the managed host succeeds:
  • Namespace: root
  • WQL Query: SELECT Name FROM __NAMESPACE
  • Result contains: ^ibmsd;*$ (regex)
• The WBEM query below to the managed host succeeds:
  • Namespace: root/ibmsd
  • WQL Query: SELECT Version FROM IBMPSG_DirectorAgent
  • Result contains: ^5\.[01].* (regex)
• The WBEM query below to the managed host succeeds:
  • Namespace: root/ibmsd
  • WQL Query: SELECT Name FROM IBMPSG_ComputerSystemDetails

Metrics