AIX WPAR Workload Monitor

• AIX WPAR Workload Monitor 1.1

• AIX WPAR Workload Monitor 1.0

• AIX WPAR Workload Agent Side Script

This plugin monitors various health & performance metrics for AIX WPAR’s.

• Uptime 7.3 and later install via the Extension Manager
• Uptime 7.2 and earlier install using the Uptime Plugin Manager

####Agent Script Setup Steps

1. Download the AIX WPAR Workload Agent Side Script and extract.
2. Place the wpar-monitor.sh file in the directory /opt/uptime-agent/scripts/ on your AIX system. (create the directory if needed)
3. Make sure wpar-monitor.sh has the appropriate permissions:

cd /opt/uptime-agent/scripts chown uptime:staff wpar-monitor.sh chmod +x wpar-monitor.sh

1. Create/edit the following password file: /opt/uptime-agent/bin/.uptmpasswd and add the following line to it (replace your-password with a password of your choosing):

  your-password /opt/uptime-agent/scripts/wpar-monitor.sh

1. Note the value used for ‘your-password’ as that will be needed when configuring the service monitor in the Uptime GUI.

• Port - port that the Uptime agent is listening on (default 9998)
• Password - password that the Uptime agent has setup

• LPAR Physical Processor Utilization (proc)
• LPAR Entitled Capacity Utilization (%)
• WPAR CPU User(%)
• WPAR CPU System (%)
• WPAR CPU Waiting on IO (%)
• WPAR CPU Idle (%)
• WPAR Physical Processor Utilization (proc)
• WPAR Physical Processor Utilization (%)
• WPAR Memory Size (pages)
• WPAR Memory In Use (pages)
• WPAR Memory Free(pages)
• WPAR Paging Space Size (pages)
• WPAR Paging Space In Use (pages)
• Response time (ms)

• Shell/Batch
• PHP
• Java