Monitoring software on IBM AIX

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Hi,
I am looking for monitoring software like Zabbix, to run it on AIX server. I have many problems with Zabbix and MySQL installation on AIX. I dont have IBM XL C/C++ compiler. Has anyone know similar solution like Zabbix that works on IBM AIX?

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You want to run the server or the client/agent on AIX?

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Zaxxon, I want to run server.

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Sorry, I don't know any. Most monitoring solutions run on Linux like Nagios, Icinga, Groundwork, etc. or on Windows. IBMPower resources are may be too expensive just for a monitoring server.

Maybe you get lucky compiling/installing one with the GNU packages you can get here:

AIX Open Source Packages | Main / AIX Open Source Packages

There is also gcc and much much more.

Update:
There is even a completely compiled Nagios 4.1 package collection.

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Too bad :(. Maybe I will try Nagios. I know perlz.org it is very helpful for AIX admins.

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If you have fun coding and enough time or a helping hand, you could also write a monitoring yourself. We did some years ago using shell and perl, since HP Open View was so bad on AIX (agent).

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You do not need to compile MySQL at all. You can download the "Community Server" version 5.0.91 from MySQL Download Archives for AIX. and use that.

I hope this helps.

Anyways, i suggest yo take a look into LPAR2RRD, which is perhaps a better monitoring tool than Zabbix for AIX.

I hope this helps.

bakunin

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Bakunin my problem is with MySQL client librarys, simple my complier dosent see this library and few others. I have many problems with librarys in IBM AIX.
Thank you fo LPAR2RRD proposition.

---------- Post updated at 03:09 AM ---------- Previous update was at 02:24 AM ----------

Zaxxon, Bakunin maybe you will know solution for my problem.
When I compile Zabbix Server with MySQL, compiler crash with error:

checking for mysql_config... /install/mysql-connector-c-6.0.2-aix5.3-powerpc-32bit/bin/mysql_config
checking for main in -l... no
configure: error: Not found mysqlclient library

I downloaded MySQL Connector from MySQL site. I have these libs:
libmysql.so libmysqlclient.a libmysqlclient.so libmysqlclient_r.so

I hold them in /usr/local/lib

command:

./mysql_config --libs
Output:
-L/usr/local/lib -lmysql -lpthread
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This looks like a case of unset (or wrongly set) LIBPATH variable. Depending on the tool(s) you use it might be necessary to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH as well (to the same value as LIBPATH ).

I hope this helps.

bakunin

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My paths:

 bash-4.2# echo $LIBPATH
/opt/freeware/lib:/opt/freeware/lib64:/usr/ccs/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib
bash-4.2# echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/opt/freeware/lib:/opt/freeware/lib64:/usr/ccs/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib
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I solved the problem by installing Zabbix with PostgreSQL

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Thanks for the follow-up. I mark this thread as solved.

bakunin