Description

This connector provides hardware status information for the fiber channel HBA cards on HP UX systems.

This connector supersedes:

• CpqHBA^[2]
• SMISHBA^[3]

Target

Typical platforms: HP 9000 HP Integrity HP SuperDome

Operating system: HP-UX

Prerequisites

Leverages: HP UX system commands (ioscan, fcmsutil)

Technology and protocols: Command Lines

This connector requires advanced privileges on the managed host for the commands below:

• /usr/sbin/ioscan
• /opt/fcms/bin/fcmsutil

This connector therefore needs to run as root or you need to configure a privilege-escalation mechanism like sudo on the managed host to allow the monitoring account to run the commands listed above.

Sample of /etc/sudoers to allow the above commands to be run as root by the metricshub account:

metricshub ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/ioscan
metricshub ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /opt/fcms/bin/fcmsutil

Examples

metricshub HOSTNAME -t hp -c +HPUXHBA --ssh -u USER --sudo-command-list /usr/sbin/ioscan,/opt/fcms/bin/fcmsutil

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: hp
        selectConnectors: [ HPUXHBA ] # Optional, to load only this connector
        protocols:
          ssh:
            username: <USERNAME> # Change with actual credentials
            password: <PASSWORD> # Encrypted using metricshub-encrypt
            useSudo: true
            useSudoCommands: [ "/usr/sbin/ioscan", "/opt/fcms/bin/fcmsutil" ]

Connector Activation Criteria

The HP-UX - HBA connector will be automatically activated, and its status will be reported as OK if all the below criteria are met:

• The command below succeeds on the monitored host
  • Command: /usr/sbin/ioscan -fnC fc
  • Output contains: /dev/ (regex)

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