Prerequisites

This section contains information about requirements that must be in place before beginning the installation.

• • • Shared Ethernet Adapter and N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV)
    • Automatic discovery and remote monitoring of LPAR from HMC

Following commands must be available for monitoring the KM.

• prtconf
• sar (user must be part of adm group)
• uptime
• lparstat
  
• vmstat
  
• mpstat
  
• iostat
  
• mpstat
  
• df
  
• mount
• ipcs
  
• getconf PAGE_SIZE
  
• netstat
  
• entstat
  
• who
  
• lsps 

Shared Ethernet Adapter and N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV)

• Make sure the user also has access to execute the viosvrcmd command.
• Make sure that the user has access to run commands, such as lshmc, lssyscfg, and lshwres.

Automatic discovery and remote monitoring of LPAR from HMC

• All the Logical Partitions to be monitored must have common credentials.
• All the Logical Partitions to be monitored should be reachable from the PATROL Agent.
• If this feature is turned ON, no other policies or KM monitoring should be configured on this PATROL Agent.
• If the SSH port for a configured host is changed, BMC recommends to restart the PATROL Agent after the port configuration.
• If multiple hosts are either down or failing for authentication, BMC recommends to filter them from monitoring.
• If Workload Partition monitoring is required, PATROL for AIX KM must be installed on individual Logical Partition.