From when are you going to support AIX 7.1

[srikanth.kallu]

Hi,

It time for us to renew nagios. From when are you to support AIX 7.1.

I am posting it here because sales team want me to check it from tech support

Thank you.

[abrist]

What metrics do you wish to monitor on AIX 7? What agent would be ideal to have support for?

[BanditBBS]

I have NRPE on 28 7.1 servers and they are being monitored great!

[abrist]

Did you compile NRPE from source on those boxes? If so, did you run into any 'gotchas'?

[BanditBBS]

Did you compile NRPE from source on those boxes? If so, did you run into any 'gotchas'?

Umm, this requires a detailed response

We could not compile from scratch, as the compiler is not installed on the servers(security). All the versions I found did not enable command line option, finally someone here linked me to one. It was a crazy manual install and I had to rewrite most of the checks so they would work with a very stripped down install of AIX. I'll see if the AIX admin can zip up the install and I will add to the Exchange and of course link it here. I'll do that this week sometime, but I just wanted to make sure this user knew 7.1 does work with NRPE and someone is actively monitoring servers with it.

[abrist]

I'll see if the AIX admin can zip up the install and I will add to the Exchange and of course link it here. I'll do that this week sometime, but I just wanted to make sure this user knew 7.1 does work with NRPE and someone is actively monitoring servers with it.

You are a scholar and a saint.

[scottwilkerson]

As I recall, @srikanth.kallu had our agent working on several of his AIX 7.1 boxes, but the "official word" was we only guaranteed support on 5.3 & 6.1 as these are the only versions we tested on.

I also recall some of his systems were missing required packages causing it to fail. This would still be a requirement....

[BanditBBS]

I also recall some of his systems were missing required packages causing it to fail. This would still be a requirement....

That sound like the same issue I was having and caused me to re-write most of the checks for AIX. As I said, I'll get them posted and he can try them if he'd like. The other nice thing is they work with 5.x, 6.x and 7.x vanilla installs.

[abrist]

As I said, I'll get them posted and he can try them if he'd like.

Great. We will leave the thread open in anticipation of the exchange link.

[srikanth.kallu]

I dont have any issues regarding aix 7.1.

All my agents on aix 7.1 servers are working great.

But last time when i had issue support gave up on me saying that they will not support 7.1

All i was expecting is official word from support.