Graphical LPAR Monitor for System p5 Servers is a graphical Logical Partition (LPAR) monitoring tool that can be used to monitor the state of one or more LPARs on a System p5 server. LPAR state information that can be monitored with this tool includes LPAR entitlement/tracking, simultaneous multithreading (SMT) state, and processor and memory use. The LPARs to be monitored can be running any mixture of AIX® 5.3, AIX 5.2, or the Linux® operating systems.

Included in Version 2.0 are several visual and functional enhancements, including the ability to group LPARs into user defined categories, set alert thresholds with associated alert actions, monitor and record into a file processor, and use memory data over time.

How does it work?

The Graphical LPAR tool consists of two components. First, there are small agents that run in AIX 5.3, AIX 5.2, or Linux LPARs on the p5 server. These agents gather various LPAR information through several operating-system commands and API calls. The agents then pass this information via a connected socket to the second component, which is the monitor's graphical user interface. This graphical user interface is a Java™ application and it is used as a collection point for the server and LPAR status information, which it then displays in a graphical format for the user.

This tool was developed by the Austin Executive Briefing Center.