Description

Provides the monitoring of RAID controllers in IBM AIX servers through the syssasraidmgr command line utility.

Connector ID: IBMAIXSissasraidmgr

Target

Typical platform: IBM POWER

Operating system: IBM AIX

Prerequisites

Leverages: sissasraidmgr managed RAID card

Technology and protocols: System Commands

This connector requires advanced privileges on the managed host for the command below:

• /usr/bin/sissasraidmgr

This connector therefore needs to run as root or you need to configure a privilege-escalation mechanism like sudo on the managed host to allow the monitoring account to run the command listed above.

Sample of /etc/sudoers to allow the above command to be run as root by the hwsagent account:

hwsagent ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/sissasraidmgr

Examples

hws HOSTNAME -t rs6000 -f IBMAIXSissasraidmgr --ssh -u USER --sudo-command-list /usr/bin/sissasraidmgr

hosts:
- host:
    hostname: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
    type: rs6000
  selectedConnectors: [ IBMAIXSissasraidmgr ] # Optional, to load only this connector
  ssh:
    username: <USERNAME> # Change with actual credentials
    password: <PASSWORD> # Encrypted using hws-encrypt
    useSudo: true
    useSudoCommands: [ "/usr/bin/sissasraidmgr" ]

Connector Activation Criteria

The IBM AIX - sissasraidmgr Disk Controllers connector will be automatically activated, and its status will be reported as OK if all the below criteria are met:

• The command below succeeds on the monitored host
  • Command: cd /etc/objrepos;/usr/bin/sissasraidmgr
  • Output contains: 0940-002 Invalid or no command specified (regex)
• The command below succeeds on the monitored host
  • Command: ls /dev/sissas*
  • Output contains: /dev/sissas[0-9] (regex)
• The command below succeeds on the monitored host
  • Command: for CTRL in `ls /dev/sissas* | sed s:/dev/::`;do cd /etc/objrepos; /usr/bin/sissasraidmgr -Ll $CTRL;done;
  • Output contains: hdisk[0-9] (regex)