Description

This connector enables hardware monitoring through the IBM Director Agent version 5.10.x which supports almost all IBM Netfinity and xSeries servers.

This connector supersedes:

• IpmiTool^[2]

enterprise^[3] hardware^[4] ibm^[5] windows^[6]

Target

Typical platform: IBM xSeries

Operating system: Microsoft Windows

Prerequisites

Leverages: IBM Director Agent 5.10.x

Technology and protocols: WMI/WinRM

Examples

metricshub HOSTNAME -t win -c +Director5NT --wmi -u USER

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: win
        connectors: [ +Director5NT ] # Optional, to load only this connector
        protocols:
          wmi:
            username: <USERNAME> # Change with actual credentials
            password: <PASSWORD> # Encrypted using metricshub-encrypt

Connector Activation Criteria

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

• Operating System is Microsoft Windows
• The Windows service TWGIPC is running
• The WMI query below to the managed host succeeds:
  • Namespace: root
  • WQL Query: SELECT Name FROM __NAMESPACE
  • Result contains: ^ibmsd;*$ (regex)
• The WMI query below to the managed host succeeds:
  • Namespace: root\ibmsd
  • WQL Query: SELECT Version FROM IBMPSG_DirectorAgent
  • Result contains: ^5\.[01].* (regex)
• The WMI query below to the managed host succeeds:
  • Namespace: root\ibmsd
  • WQL Query: SELECT ProductName FROM IBMPSG_ComputerSystemDetails

Metrics