Proposal to extend Ganglia with additional POWER5/6 metrics for AIX 5L and Linux on POWER:

If you have any comments regarding this web page please contact me at: michael@perzl.org

The current AIX and Linux Ganglia gmond implementation is not aware of the IBM POWER5/6 processor specifics. This is a proposal to extend Ganglia with such metrics. Details about these metrics can be found here:

• Additional POWER5/6 metrics for AIX 5L and Linux on POWER for Ganglia v3.0.3
• Additional POWER5/6 metrics for AIX 5L and Linux on POWER for Ganglia v3.0.4
• Additional POWER5/6 metrics for AIX 5L and Linux on POWER for Ganglia v3.0.5
• Additional POWER5/6 metrics for AIX 5L and Linux on POWER for Ganglia v3.0.7

Here you can download the RPM packages:

• POWER5/6-aware RPMs for AIX 5L and Linux on POWER for Ganglia v3.0.3
• POWER5/6-aware RPMs for AIX 5L and Linux on POWER for Ganglia v3.0.4
• POWER5/6-aware RPMs for AIX 5L and Linux on POWER for Ganglia v3.0.5
• POWER5/6-aware RPMs for AIX 5L and Linux on POWER for Ganglia v3.0.7

If you are running gmetad on AIX you also need an XML- and GD-enabled Apache2 web server with PHP module.

• Please note that you can find RPMs of the newest versions of Apache, PHP, GD, libxml2 etc. at my AIX Open Source software repository at http://www.perzl.org/aix/.
• Here you can download an older precompiled version (no RPM): Precompiled Apache2 for Ganglia gmetad for AIX5L v5.1 and higher

Here are some more (useful) things I have been working on

• My "enhanced" Ganglia web interface
• Insert device specific information (network, disk, adapter) into Ganglia via gmetric
• Ganglia on IBM POWER systems "Best Practices"
• Here is a current presentation which describes Ganglia on POWER5/6 systems in the following formats:
  
• Adobe PDF
  
• MS PowerPoint
• Open Document (OpenOffice)