Description

Provides hardware status information of the non-RAID SCSI physical disks on IBM AIX systems.

Connector ID: IBMAIXDisk

This connector is superseded by:

• IBMVIOS

Target

Typical platform: IBM POWER

Operating system: IBM AIX

Prerequisites

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

Technology and protocols: System Commands

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

• /usr/bin/dd

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/dd

Examples

hws HOSTNAME -t rs6000 -f IBMAIXDisk --ssh -u USER --sudo-command-list /usr/bin/dd

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

Connector Activation Criteria

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

• Operating System is IBM AIX
• The command below succeeds on the monitored host
  • Command: which lsdev
  • Output contains: /lsdev$ (regex)