Installation Manual

Installing the CIM Extension for IBM AIX194
IMPORTANT: You must install the CIM extension for IBM AIX to the default directory. If there are
space issues, such as large CIM extension binary files, create a symbolic link to a folder with more
space.
1. Insert the CIM Extension 1 CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive.
2. Mount the CD-ROM drive by entering the following at the command prompt:
# mount -rv cdrfs /dev/cd0 /cdrom
where /dev/cd0 is the name of the CD-ROM drive.
If necessary, create a /cdrom directory first.
3. Enter the following at the command prompt:
# smit -C
4. Select Software Installation and Maintenance.
5. Select Install and Update Software.
6. Select Install Software.
7. For INPUT device/directory for software, enter the following:
cdrom/Aix
where/cdrom is the directory where you mounted the CD-ROM.
8. To install the software, activate the list command (Esc+4) and select the following:
APPQcime
9. Press Enter to install.
10.If you see error messages when you install the CIM extension for AIX, see ”Rolling Over the Log
Files” on page 198.
11.Unmount the CD-ROM by entering the following at the command prompt:
# umount /cdrom
where /cdrom is the name of the directory where you mounted the CD-ROM
12.Complete the following:
• Turn on Monitoring. See ”Setting Up Monitoring” on page 194.
• Start the CIM extension. See ”Starting the CIM Extension Manually” on page 195.
• Optional: On some versions of AIX, the CIM extension cannot start automatically after the
host is rebooted. To see if your version of AIX supports the automatic startup, see ”Rolling
Over the Log Files” on page 198.
Setting Up Monitoring
If you want the management server to be able to monitor the AIX host, iostat must be set to true.
When iostat is set to true, disk activity history is retained for all disks. The retention of disk activity
is required for the management server to accurately monitor the AIX host.
To verify if disk activity history is being retained:
1. Enter the iostat command in the command prompt:
# iostat