Nagios Support Forum

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.

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?

@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

@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.

@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.

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.