Munin Installation in AIX 5.3

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Dear All,

I heard about munin tool features and am planning to get exposure in order to monitor my environment through munin. Basically my environment is having 18 AIX servers (Version is AIX 5.3) and am not able to monitor actively CPU, DISK, Memory utilizations. If I want to install Munin in AIX and I want to monitor my servers through GUI means; I don't know what and all required and where to start?

  1. What are the packages required before munin installation as part of prerequisites?

  2. How we can ensure all pre-requisites are covered (tell me the commands to ensure all required packages are there in servers?)

  3. Then where can I download munin (please tell me the fully qualified path and which version is stable)

  4. Once I downloaded munin; is there any step by step installation guide available (from starting point onwards i.e:- which file we need to execute first and what we need to give).

  5. After installation in AIX, is there any step by step guide as part of munin configuration.

Please help me on this...

Thanks & Regards,
BVIJAY

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Hi BVIJAY

Have you seem a ibm free tool caled Nmon ? I think this free tool is more easy to configure and if a lot of how to.

IBM Wikis - AIX 5L Wiki - nmon
AIX Tips

...but Munin is very cool to ! Please see the docs on Munin project website : Munin - Trac
As you can see there is a lot of configurations and options in Munin.The main pre-reqs are Perl and Apache.

I hope this can help you
Reinaldo Dias