RE: ITM and AIX WPARs

Well, from my point of view, since I'm going through a certification process for AIX, it won't hurt to look at several options.

It may be that KUX may address what is currently needed.

Mike

"Manish A. Parikh" <[email protected]> wrote:

Wonder if we could use smart cloud monitoring capabilities (from IBM) to
monitor WPARs?



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During ITM 623 and ITM 630, the KPX attributes are mostly being merged into
the Unix OS Agent. I think there are some exceptions. I think it is almost
done at current levels.

The other AIX Premium agents remain - VIOS and HMC??

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Hey Jon-

Many thanx for the information.  We are actually using KPX, but I had heard
a rumor that it was being merged into the KUX agent?  So I just wanted to
get some insight on it before I started digging.

Thanx again.

Mike-

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Mike,

Not had that much hands-on time inside AIX WPAR implementations, but as I
remember (and may well be wrong), WPARs are 'workload partitions' inside
LPARS which are 'logical partitions'. The true OS 'machine' is the LPAR, and
the WPAR is a collection of configuration and process management creating a
pseudo-virtual set of resources for use, not a true virtual machine. In that
respect, there may well be sharing of code, log files and the like from a
common TEMA directory, which wouldn't work well.

Whether you're planning to use the KPX agent (AIX Premium) or in the more
recent levels where KPX is converging into KUX, I seem to remember many of
the WPAR-related attribute groups have the WPAR name as an attribute. From
that, a single TEMA to manage them all in an LPAR makes sense. You can use
WPAR attributes to scope situations down to the rows that are the resources
for a give WPAR. The recent KUX OS Agent User's Guide should be your guide.
Note that at some levels during the convergence there were issues with
non-root agent installations not having access to all the underlying data.
It's documented in the User's Guide.

Have fun with that.

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From: Mike Elleby 3.0 [[email protected]]
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Hey John A.-

If you have your ears on.  I'm currently working on an effort where WPARs
(AIX) are intending to be used in the environment, and there is a perception
that TEMAs can't run on a local WPAR, that they can only run in the Global,
not similar to Solaris Global/Local Zones, where I can run a TEMA in either
zone.  They haven't started testing yet, but I wanted to be proactive and
get some information on this item.

Your thoughts?

Thanx in advance.

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