Re: VIOS monitoring

Thanks Jack....I am already doing performance research tasks with Power Navigator by MPG. Real-time infrastructure monitoring is the concern and Dawn did make a good suggestion for Systems Director. SDMC required the appliance if you were using anything bigger than a 740 I think....just hope those same restrictions do not apply to Systems Director as well because using a VM would be preferred in my environment (I realize the two products are not the same). I have some Systems Director decks from the 2012 Technical University so I need to look that over.

Hopefully one of the IBM i monitoring software vendors will develop a VIOS agent that can report back into an enterprise monitoring console. Systems Director has some nice functions but it's also another independent system/VM to maintain. Perhaps I will change my tune once I familiarize myself with the new IBM i monitoring enhancements for Director.......

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From:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jack Kingsley
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 9:58 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: VIOS monitoring

Brad, check this link out:

https://www-912.ibm.com/i_dir/idoctor.nsf/nm.html



On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Dawn May<dmmay@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>IBM Systems Director can monitor VIOS and you can set up the
>monitoring and automation to do all the things you asked about. It
>also has the capability to send SNMP traps as the action taken when an event occurs.
>VIOS comes with the required agent pre-installed, and on the latest
>levels of the VIOS, it is also configured to start by default.
>
>The down-side is while the agent is pre-installed on the VIOS, you
>need the Director Server installed and set up to actually do the
>monitoring and event automation. Systems Direction installation and
>set up isn't terribly difficult, but I would not call it simple.
>
>You can also monitor your partitions i with Systems Director. With
>the latest version (6.3.2) that came out last December, there are some
>nice enhancements for monitoring i.
>
>Dawn May
>
>
>
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>From:<brad.lovelady@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To:<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>Date: 02/04/2013 02:36 PM
>Subject: RE: VIOS monitoring
>Sent by:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
>Larry,
>
>I second your statement, must have SNMP capability. There seems to be
>quite a bit tools of tools intended to analyze performance at the
>research level, but I am more concerned with alerting someone when
>there is a hardware failure, network outage, real-time performance
>threshold, etc. iDoctor, MPG, and NMON are great tools but I am
>looking for a simple "agent" that will recognize critical events and then notify someone via SNMP trap.
>
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>
>Wells Fargo Bank l 200 Wildwood Pkwy l Birmingham, AL 35209 MAC
>W2691-010 Tel 205-938-1999 l Cell 205-826-2834
>
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>mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DrFranken
>Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 12:56 PM
>To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
>Subject: Re: VIOS monitoring
>
>I've been trying to get PRTG to do SNMP to VIOS but so far no joy at
>all. I haven't put a lot of time into it, but the issue seems to be
>SNMP configuration because I've not gotten any response whatever.
>
> - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
>
>www.frankeni.com
>www.iDevCloud.com
>www.iInTheCloud.com
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>On 2/4/2013 1:00 PM,brad.lovelady@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>

> >Is anyone using 3rd party products to monitor IBM VIO server? I am
> >looking for something that can monitor the VIO event log, real-time
> >performance, and hardware failures. The program would also need to
> >escalate applicable events via email or SNMP, preferably SNMP.
> >Thanks
> >
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