On Jun 15, 7:56 am, Troels Arvin <tro...@arvin.dk> wrote:
> Environment: AIX 5.3.
>
> I would like to monitor some AIX servers' I/O usage through SNMP.
> Parameters that I'm interested in are read/write KB per disk, page-in/
> page-out.
>
> However, AIX's standard SNMP daemon doesn't seem to export information
> like this.
>
> I've tried to find a way to make the SNMP daemon export such information.
> There isn't a lot of information on this, it seems. But a bit of googling
> turned uphttp://www-941.ibm.com/collaboration/wiki/display/WikiPtype/
> VIOS_Monitoring#VIOS_Monitoring-SNMP
>
> However, "it simply doesn't work":
> "snmpinfo -md -v" outputs nothing related to what I'm looking for, and no
> parameter names containing "xm".
>
> Some people I've chatted with suggested installing net-snmp, but I would
> rather not have to compile+install extra software on the servers,
> especially when I don't know of it will enable me to monitor I/O
> performance values.
>
> Any suggestions/comments?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Troels Arvin <tro...@arvin.dk>http://troels.arvin.dk/

You'll want to ensure that the aixmibd managed MIBs aren't being
excluded in the snmpd(v3).conf and that the aixmibd daemon is active.
I know you'll get paging space info, not sure about I/O stats, but
it's probably included as well.