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

The current AIX and Linux implementation is not aware of the IBM POWER5/6 processor specifics. This is a proposal to extend Ganglia (currently at version 3.0.3) with such metrics. Details about these metrics can be found in the documentation further below.

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

Documentation of the new proposed POWER5/6 metrics on AIX 5L and Linux on POWER:

Changed source files of Ganglia v3.0.3 to make it aware of new POWER5/6 processor capabilities:
The following list of Ganglia source files had to be adapted for these new POWER5/6 processor aware metrics for AIX 5L and Linux on POWER. A tar.gz file of all changed files as well as a context diff of all changed files can be found further below.

Here is a tar.gz file of all files mentioned above:  ganglia-3.0.3-power5-changes.tar.gz
The unified context diff against Ganglia 3.0.3 can be downloaded here:  ganglia-3.0.3-power5-contextdiff.gz
The use of this context diff is intended as follows (on AIX or Linux):
gunzip ganglia-3.0.3-power5-contextdiff.gz
gunzip ganglia-3.0.3.tar.gz
tar xvf ganglia-3.0.3.tar
cd ganglia-3.0.3
patch -s -p1 < ../ganglia-3.0.3-power5-contextdiff

Building Ganglia v3.0.3 RPMs on AIX
Building easy to install Ganglia RPM files is not as difficult as it may seem. This is a short description of my compile environment and how I generate the RPM files.
init script for gmond on AIX:  gmond.aix.init
init script for gmetad on AIX:  gmetad.aix.init

AIX SPEC file for Ganglia v3.0.3:  ganglia-3.0.3.spec