Zabbix & AIX VIOs -> Disk reservation conflict

[Alain Ganuchaud]

Hi,

we run zabbix 1.9.9 agent on AIX 6.1, on LPARs as well on VIOs. Recently we lost a disk partition, IBM support concluded it was a "reservation conflict" on the disk partition and pointed Zabbix as a potential root cause.

This record was found in the IBM Knowledge Database by the support:
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... the Zabbix monitoring software has the potential to
temporarily put reserves on a disk, you should
consider disabling any monitoring software/agents
for now and keep an eye on things ..
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IBM requested0 Zabbix to be desinstalled from VIOs.
Are you aware of such problem?

As (from what I know ... to tell the truth, not a lot) VIOs and LPARs have same OS, how can Zabbix be supported on LPARs and not on VIOs?

Thanks for help or any comment,
Alain

[flydude25]

Hello. I am currently monitoring lpars with the AIX agent. How are you monitoring VIOs?