Monitoring AIX Servers limitations?

[ikekim]

Hi,

I read through the "Nagios XI – Installing The AIX Agent" and it says " Currently AIX 5.3 and AIX 6.1 are supported, but
support for other versions of AIX may be added in the future."

So what do I do to monitoring the AIX servers 7.x versions?

Would I be able to use SSH plugin instead of using AIX agent?

Is there other ways that I can monitor AIX machines?


thanks,
ik.

[dwasswa]

Hi @ikekim,

Yes,there other ways you can monitor AXI machines.

Please follow this guide..Monitoring AXI WITH Nagios



Please let me know if you have any questions?

[ikekim]

@dwasswa,

thanks, but the top part of the document says..."These instructions cover how to install and use pre-compiled binaries to monitor AIX 5.3 using NRPE".

This means this document applies to the older version of AIX than from the document that I read which applies to AIX 6.1

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... Nagios.pdf

[dwasswa]

@ikekim,

Since you have a newer version of AXI, then the best option for now would be through ssh.

Please take a look at this guide..Monitoring hosts Using SSH.

Let me know if this works for you.

[ikekim]

@dwassaw,

I need a clarification about monitoring AIX servers when agents are not being used.

I see under the administration guide the AIX install documents has one document using the agent and the other using SNMP.
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ig.php#aix

This seems to indicate AIX can only be monitored with either the agent or SNMP, and not by using SSH.

Could you please clarify?

thanks.

[dwhitfield]

It's true that we do not have a document on it, but if you are familiar with generating keys on AIX, you should be able to use https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ng_SSH.pdf

Additionally, you can also compile NRPE on AIX. Again, we don't have documentation on that, but as long as you have a C compiler you should be able to do it. Our current NRPE compile instructions are available at https://support.nagios.com/kb/article.php?id=515

That said, my personal philosophy is that what is best is whatever works in your environment. check_by_ssh is pretty simple to set up in comparison to the other methods, I think, but of all the methods, it does have the heaviest load. Whether that's the best for your environment is really your decision.