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 3.0.4) 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 v3.0.4 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-3.0.4-patch-ibm-power.tar.gz
The source RPM file containing everything (also all SPEC files, links see below) can be downloaded here:  ganglia-ibm-power-3.0.4-2.src.rpm
Building Ganglia v3.0.4 RPMs:
Building 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. All the operations have to be performed as root user.
Please also check the following description on my AIX open source repository.