HP Intelligent Management Center v5.2 Application Performance Manager Administrator Guide

8 UNIX server monitor

APM provides application monitoring and reporting for the following types of UNIX systems:

 AIX

 Solaris

 FreeBSD

 Mac OS

 OpenBSD

 HP-UX

AIX

AIX can be installed on various types of IBM servers. The performance and stability of AIX greatly affects

the performance of applications running on it. APM provides the ability to monitor AIX 5.4 or later

versions of the operating system.

Adding an AIX application monitor

APM monitors the AIX operating system through CLI. When you add application monitors for AIX, follow

these guidelines:

 Enable Telnet or SSH on AIX. For more information, see the AIX configuration guide.

 Obtain the correct username and password of the Telnet or SSH user who has the AIX

administrator's privileges

 To view traffic statistics in the monitor report of the AIX application, make sure at least one probe is

configured in APM. After an AIX application monitor is added, APM sends the IP address of the

monitored AIX application to the probes for traffic collection.

To add an AIX application monitor:

1. Click the Resource tab.

2. Enter the Add Application page in one of the following ways:

 Select Application Manager > Add Application from the navigation tree.

The page displays all application types that can be monitored by APM.

 Select Application Manager > Application Monitor from the navigation tree, and then click Add

on the application monitor list page.

3. Click AIX of the UNIX Server Monitor class.

The page for adding an AIX application monitor appears.

4. Configure the following parameters:

 IP Address—Enter the IP address of the host on which the AIX application to be monitored is

installed. If the host is already added to the IMC Platform, you can also click Select and select

the host in the Select Devices window. For information about selecting a host, see "2 Quick

start." APM automatically checks the specified IP address and associates the application

monitor with the host managed in the IMC Platform.