Description

This connector enables hardware monitoring for RAID controllers in IBM AIX servers through the syssasraidmgr command line utility.

aix^[3] enterprise^[4] hardware^[5] ibm^[6] raid^[7]

Target

Typical platform: IBM POWER^[8]

Operating system: IBM AIX

Prerequisites

Leverages: sissasraidmgr managed RAID card

Technology and protocols: Commands

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

• /usr/bin/sissasraidmgr

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 command listed above.

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

metricshub ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/sissasraidmgr

Examples

metricshub HOSTNAME -t aix -c +IBMAIXSissasraidmgr --ssh -u USER --sudo-command-list /usr/bin/sissasraidmgr

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: aix
        connectors: [ +IBMAIXSissasraidmgr ] # Optional, to load only this connector
        protocols:
          ssh:
            username: <USERNAME> # Change with actual credentials
            password: <PASSWORD> # Encrypted using metricshub-encrypt
            useSudo: true
            useSudoCommands: [ "/usr/bin/sissasraidmgr" ]

Connector Activation Criteria

The IBM AIX - sissasraidmgr Disk Controllers 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: cd /etc/objrepos;/usr/bin/sissasraidmgr
  • Output contains: 0940-002 Invalid or no command specified (regex)
• The command below succeeds on the monitored host
  • Command: ls /dev/sissas*
  • Output contains: /dev/sissas[0-9] (regex)
• The command below succeeds on the monitored host
  • Command: for CTRL in `ls /dev/sissas* | sed s:/dev/::`;do cd /etc/objrepos; /usr/bin/sissasraidmgr -Ll $CTRL;done;
  • Output contains: hdisk[0-9] (regex)

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