IBM AIX–SCSI disks

This connector provides hardware status information of the non-RAID SCSI physical disks on IBM AIX systems

Target

Typical platforms: IBM RS/6000, IBM pSeries, IBM eServer p5

Operating systems: IBM AIX

Instrumentation layer: IBM AIX system commands (lsdev, pvdisplay, etc.)

Technology used: System commands

Discovered objects

●Disk controllers (SEN_HW_DISKCONTROLLER)

●Physical disks (SEN_HW_PHYSICALDISK)

Parameters collected

●SEN_HW_PHYSICALDISK / Status

●SEN_HW_PHYSICALDISK / Error Count

This connector is able to monitor the local host and/or a remote system.

This connector probably requires root privileges for its proper operation. You therefore will need to configure the product to use the root login/password to execute external commands. Alternatively, you can configure the product to use the 'sudo' utility for the following commands:

/usr/bin/dd