On Sunday 16 October 2011 10:34:32 Scott Pfister wrote:

On Friday 14 October 2011, Stef Coene wrote:

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I use this to graph the memory usage of AIX lpars running on the same

hardware

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box. So I create a subdirectory 'data/rrd/pSerie1' and in the

subdirectory I

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create symlinks for each server running on that pSerie: vmstat-server1.rrd -> ../server1/vmstat.rrd vmstat-server2.rrd -> ../server2/vmstat.rrd vmstat-server3.rrd -> ../server3/vmstat.rrd

That's a good idea. Do you do similar aggregation with other graph points on the lpars running on same hardware? like Physical CPU? If so would you be willing to share those graph definitions? I think this should be working for CPU: [vmstat-pc-total] FNPATTERN vmstat-(.+).rrd TITLE Used Physical CPU (Stacked) YAXIS pc (100 = 1 CPU) -b 1000 DEF:pc at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:cpu_pc:AVERAGE LINE1:pc at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:@RRDPARAM@:STACK GPRINT:pc at RRDIDX@:LAST:pc \: %5.1lf%s (cur) GPRINT:pc at RRDIDX@:MAX: \: %5.1lf%s (max) GPRINT:pc at RRDIDX@:MIN: \: %5.1lf%s (min) GPRINT:pc at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf%s (avg)\n

I don't use this graph definitions anymore.

I created an inventory application that knows the lpars running on the pSeries and it creates graphs by calling hobbitgraph.sh with: hobbitraph.sh?host=server1,server2,server3&service=vmstat-pc&action=menu

The corresponding graph definition is: [vmstat-pc-multi] FNPATTERN vmstat.rrd TITLE Used Physical CPU (Stacked) YAXIS pc (100 = 1 CPU) -b 1000 DEF:pc at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:cpu_pc:AVERAGE LINE1:pc at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:@RRDPARAM@:STACK GPRINT:pc at RRDIDX@:LAST:pc \: %5.1lf%s (cur) GPRINT:pc at RRDIDX@:MAX: \: %5.1lf%s (max) GPRINT:pc at RRDIDX@:MIN: \: %5.1lf%s (min) GPRINT:pc at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf%s (avg)\n

The result is the same, but you don't have to create the symlinks. The "-multi+ is added automatically by xymon because you specify multiple hosts.

This is the graph definition for entiled CPU capacity: [vmstat-ec-multi] FNPATTERN vmstat.rrd TITLE Used Entitled CPU Capacity YAXIS ec % -b 1000 DEF:ect at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:cpu_ec:AVERAGE CDEF:ec at RRDIDX@=ect at RRDIDX@,10,/ LINE1:ec at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:@RRDPARAM@ GPRINT:ec at RRDIDX@:LAST:ec \: %5.1lf%s (cur) GPRINT:ec at RRDIDX@:MAX: \: %5.1lf%s (max) GPRINT:ec at RRDIDX@:MIN: \: %5.1lf%s (min) GPRINT:ec at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf%s (avg)\n

Stef