On Monday 22 June 2009, Larry Barber wrote:

Is there anyway to report actual memory on AIX 5.3 clients? The thing is that the old BigBrother client reported actual memory and I have users that don't what to switch to the Hobbit client because of that. I would really like to get those old BB clients off of the system, too.

(see also http://www.docum.org/foswiki/bin/view/Xymon/AixTips)

I add this to the AIX hosts in bb-hosts: TRENDS:*,vmstat:vmstat1|vmstat8|vmstat-pc|vmstat-ec|vmstat-avm| vmstat-free-list

The hobbitgraph.cfg entries: [vmstat-avm] TITLE Accessed Virtual Memory YAXIS Size kB -b 1024 DEF:avm=vmstat.rrd:mem_avm:AVERAGE CDEF:sw=avm,4048,* LINE2:sw#00CC00: GPRINT:sw:LAST:Accessed Virtual Memory \: %5.1lf%s (cur) GPRINT:sw:MAX: \: %5.1lf%s (max) GPRINT:sw:MIN: \: %5.1lf%s (min) GPRINT:sw:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf%s (avg)\n

[vmstat-avm-total] FNPATTERN vmstat.rrd TITLE Accessed Virtual Memory YAXIS Size kB -b 1024 DEF:avm at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:mem_avm:AVERAGE CDEF:sw at RRDIDX@=avm at RRDIDX@,4048,* LINE1:sw at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:@RRDPARAM@:STACK GPRINT:sw at RRDIDX@:LAST:AVM \: %5.1lf%s (cur) GPRINT:sw at RRDIDX@:MAX: \: %5.1lf%s (max) GPRINT:sw at RRDIDX@:MIN: \: %5.1lf%s (min) GPRINT:sw at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf%s (avg)\n

[vmstat-free-list] TITLE Memory free list YAXIS pages kB -b 1000 DEF:free=vmstat.rrd:mem_free:AVERAGE CDEF:fr=free,4048,* LINE2:fr#00CC00 GPRINT:fr:LAST:Size of the free list \: %5.1lf%s (cur) GPRINT:fr:MAX: \: %5.1lf%s (max) GPRINT:fr:MIN: \: %5.1lf%s (min) GPRINT:fr:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf%s (avg)\n

[vmstat-ec] TITLE Used Entitled CPU Capacity YAXIS ec % -b 1000 DEF:ec2=vmstat.rrd:cpu_ec:AVERAGE CDEF:ec=ec2,10,/ LINE2:ec#00CC00 GPRINT:ec:LAST:ec \: %5.1lf%s%% (cur) GPRINT:ec:MAX: \: %5.1lf%s%% (max) GPRINT:ec:MIN: \: %5.1lf%s%% (min) GPRINT:ec:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf%s%% (avg)\n

See also http://www.docum.org/foswiki/bin/view/Xymon/AixPower5 for CPU graphs.

Stef