Lenovo IMM Event Monitoring (SNMP)

Description

This connector enables hardware monitoring for IBM xSeries through Lenovo's IMM management card. It supplements the active monitoring of the Lenovo IMM connector by parsing the Event Log. This allows older IBM xSeries systems to be fully monitored via their IMM.

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Enterprise Connector

This connector requires the Enterprise edition of MetricsHub.

Target

Typical platform: IBM xSeries

Operating system: Out-Of-Band

Prerequisites

Leverages: Lenovo IMM's SNMP Service

Technology and protocols: SNMP

Examples

CLI

metricshub HOSTNAME -t oob -c +LenovoIMMEventTable --snmp v2c --community public

metricshub.yaml

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: oob
        connectors: [ +LenovoIMMEventTable ] # Optional, to load only this connector
        protocols:
          snmp:
            version: v2c # Read documentation for v1, v2c and v3
            community: public # or probably something more secure

Connector Activation Criteria

The Lenovo IMM Event Monitoring (SNMP) connector will be automatically activated, and its status will be reported as OK if all the below criteria are met:

• An SNMP GetNext on the OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.3.51.3.2.1.1.1 must return a non-empty value

Metrics

Type	Collected Metrics	Specific Attributes
other_device	hw.status{hw.type="other_device", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="other_device", state="present"}	hw.parent.type id name