Description

This connector reports hardware errors that occurred during the day and provides the status of the System Attention LED of all IBM AIX servers connected to the Hardware Management Console. An ALARM alert is triggered for a hardware problem that happened during the day and is automatically cleared at midnight.

Target

Typical platform: IBM POWER

Operating system: Linux

Prerequisites

Leverages: IBM Hardware Management Console (HMC)

Technology and protocols: Command Lines

This connector is not available for the local host (it is applicable to remote hosts only).

Examples

metricshub HOSTNAME -t linux -c +IBMHMC --ssh -u USER

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

Connector Activation Criteria

The IBM Hardware Management Console (HMC) Version 7 or earlier connector will be automatically activated, and its status will be reported as OK if all the below criteria are met:

• Operating System is Linux
• The command below succeeds on the monitored host
  • Command: lshmc -V
  • Output contains: version.*Version.*[4567] (regex)

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