Re: VIOS monitoring

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't use it today, but did while I was VP-CIO.  We used active energy 
manager and a couple of the other tools (the smart PDUs) to monitor the 
data center and cut our energy usage by over 60%, and several ton's of 
carbon footprint.  That made the Board of Directors happy.  (They did 
not care that we also cut the cost of running the data center, only the 
"environmental impact")

The ambient temperature in the data center was 75 degrees when we were 
done.  Since all the equipment was reporting in within temperature 
specifications (even the HP Servers we had) we were able to push the 
temperature up to a nice warm spot.  No more sweaters in the data center 
while you were working there.....

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects

On 2/6/13 1:06 PM, brad.lovelady@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Jim,
>
> 10-4, thanks for the confirmation.....are you using Director to monitor your IBM i? If so, do you find Director's monitoring features comparable to typical IBM i 3rd party packages?
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> From:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx  [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Oberholtzer
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 12:56 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: VIOS monitoring
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> Brad,
>
> Sorry I misunderstood, I have loaded Director on VMs many times. The only problem is if the system the VM is running on or the VM itself has an issue, then the Director software clearly cannot report that.
>
> Jim Oberholtzer
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> On 2/6/13 12:52 PM,brad.lovelady@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx  wrote:
> > >Jim,
> > >
> > >I am aware SDMC is no longer offered (HMC is all I ever needed anyway). My point was....are there any requirements that would prohibit the Systems Director software stack from being installed on a VM? I wouldn't think so, but cannot seem to find any specific verbiage on Director infrastructure requirements.
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> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx   
> > >[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Oberholtzer
> > >Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 12:29 PM
> > >To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> > >Subject: Re: VIOS monitoring
> > >
> > >Brad,
> > >
> > >SDMC is gone.  I think it's the software product called IBM Director that's being discussed.
> > >
> > >Jim Oberholtzer
> > >Chief Technical Architect
> > >Agile Technology Architects
> > >
> > >On 2/6/13 11:20 AM,brad.lovelady@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx   wrote:
> > > > >> >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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> > > > >> >Operating Systems Engineer
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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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> > > > >> >-----Original Message-----
> > > > >> >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
> > > > > > > > >>>> >> >Sentby:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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> > > > > > > > >>>> >> >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.
> > > > > > > > >>>> >> >
> > > > > > > > >>>> >> >***********************************
> > > > > > > > >>>> >> >Bradford Lovelady
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> > > > > > > > >>>> >> >Operating Systems Engineer
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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
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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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