IBM AIX

IBM AIX

AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) is a series of proprietary Unix operating systems developed and sold by IBM for several of its computer platforms.

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This template is for Zabbix version: 6.2
Also available for: 6.0

Source: https://git.zabbix.com/projects/ZBX/repos/zabbix/browse/templates/os/aix?at=release/6.2

AIX by Zabbix agent

Overview

For Zabbix version: 6.2 and higher
Official AIX template. Requires agent of Zabbix 4.0 and newer.

Setup

See Zabbix template operation for basic instructions.

Install Zabbix agent on AIX OS according to Zabbix documentation.

Zabbix configuration

No specific Zabbix configuration is required.

Macros used

Name Description Default
{$AGENT.TIMEOUT}

Timeout after which agent is considered unavailable. Works only for agents reachable from Zabbix server/proxy (passive mode).

 3m

Template links

There are no template links in this template.

Discovery rules

Name Description Type Key and additional info
Mounted filesystem discovery

Discovery of file systems of different types as defined in global regular expression "File systems for discovery".

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE vfs.fs.discovery

Filter:

- {#FSTYPE} MATCHES_REGEX @File systems for discovery
Network interface discovery

Discovery of network interfaces as defined in global regular expression "Network interfaces for discovery".

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE net.if.discovery

Filter:

- {#IFNAME} MATCHES_REGEX @Network interfaces for discovery

Items collected

Group Name Description Type Key and additional info
AIX Number of running processes

Number of processes in running state.

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE proc.num[,,run]
AIX Number of processes

Total number of processes in any state.

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE proc.num[]
AIX Interrupts per second

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.cpu.intr

Preprocessing:

- CHANGE_PER_SECOND: ``
AIX Processor load (1 min average per core)

The processor load is calculated as system CPU load divided by number of CPU cores.

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.cpu.load[percpu,avg1]
AIX Processor load (5 min average per core)

The processor load is calculated as system CPU load divided by number of CPU cores.

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.cpu.load[percpu,avg5]
AIX Processor load (15 min average per core)

The processor load is calculated as system CPU load divided by number of CPU cores.

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.cpu.load[percpu,avg15]
AIX Context switches per second

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.cpu.switches

Preprocessing:

- CHANGE_PER_SECOND: ``
AIX Host name

System host name.

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.hostname

Preprocessing:

- DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: 1d
AIX Host local time

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.localtime
AIX CPU available physical processors in the shared pool

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.stat[cpu,app]
AIX CPU entitled capacity consumed

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.stat[cpu,ec]
AIX CPU idle time

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.stat[cpu,id]
AIX CPU logical processor utilization

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.stat[cpu,lbusy]
AIX CPU number of physical processors consumed

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.stat[cpu,pc]
AIX CPU system time

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.stat[cpu,sy]
AIX CPU user time

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.stat[cpu,us]
AIX CPU iowait time

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.stat[cpu,wa]
AIX Amount of data transferred

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.stat[disk,bps]
AIX Number of transfers

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.stat[disk,tps]
AIX Processor units is entitled to receive

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.stat[ent]
AIX Kernel thread context switches

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.stat[faults,cs]
AIX Device interrupts

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.stat[faults,in]
AIX System calls

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.stat[faults,sy]
AIX Length of the swap queue

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.stat[kthr,b]
AIX Length of the run queue

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.stat[kthr,r]
AIX Active virtual pages

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.stat[memory,avm]
AIX Free real memory

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.stat[memory,fre]
AIX File page-ins per second

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.stat[page,fi]
AIX File page-outs per second

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.stat[page,fo]
AIX Pages freed (page replacement)

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.stat[page,fr]
AIX Pages paged in from paging space

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.stat[page,pi]
AIX Pages paged out to paging space

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.stat[page,po]
AIX Pages scanned by page-replacement algorithm

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.stat[page,sr]
AIX System information

The information as normally returned by 'uname -a'.

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.uname

Preprocessing:

- DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: 1d
AIX System uptime

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.uptime
AIX Number of logged in users

Number of users who are currently logged in.

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE system.users.num
AIX Checksum of /etc/passwd

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE vfs.file.cksum[/etc/passwd,sha256]
AIX Available memory

Available memory is defined as free+cached+buffers memory.

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE vm.memory.size[available]
AIX Total memory

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE vm.memory.size[total]
AIX Interface {#IFNAME}: Incoming network traffic

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE net.if.in[{#IFNAME}]

Preprocessing:

- CHANGE_PER_SECOND: `</p><p>- MULTIPLIER:8`
AIX Interface {#IFNAME}: Outgoing network traffic

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE net.if.out[{#IFNAME}]

Preprocessing:

- CHANGE_PER_SECOND: `</p><p>- MULTIPLIER:8`
AIX {#FSNAME}: Free inodes, %

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE vfs.fs.inode[{#FSNAME},pfree]
AIX {#FSNAME}: Free disk space

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE vfs.fs.size[{#FSNAME},free]
AIX {#FSNAME}: Free disk space, %

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE vfs.fs.size[{#FSNAME},pfree]
AIX {#FSNAME}: Total disk space

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE vfs.fs.size[{#FSNAME},total]
AIX {#FSNAME}: Used disk space

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE vfs.fs.size[{#FSNAME},used]
Monitoring agent Version of Zabbix agent running

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE agent.version

Preprocessing:

- DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: 1d
Monitoring agent Host name of Zabbix agent running

-

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE agent.hostname

Preprocessing:

- DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: 1d
Monitoring agent Zabbix agent ping

The agent always returns 1 for this item. It could be used in combination with nodata() for availability check.

 ZABBIX_PASSIVE agent.ping
Status Zabbix agent availability

Monitoring agent availability status

 INTERNAL zabbix[host,agent,available]

Triggers

Name Description Expression Severity Dependencies and additional info
Too many processes running

-

 avg(/AIX by Zabbix agent/proc.num[,,run],5m)>30 WARNING
Too many processes

-

 avg(/AIX by Zabbix agent/proc.num[],5m)>300 WARNING
Processor load is too high

-

 avg(/AIX by Zabbix agent/system.cpu.load[percpu,avg1],5m)>5 WARNING
Hostname was changed

-

 last(/AIX by Zabbix agent/system.hostname,#1)<>last(/AIX by Zabbix agent/system.hostname,#2) INFO
Disk I/O is overloaded

OS spends significant time waiting for I/O (input/output) operations. It could be indicator of performance issues with storage system.

 avg(/AIX by Zabbix agent/system.stat[cpu,wa],5m)>20 WARNING
Host information was changed

-

 last(/AIX by Zabbix agent/system.uname,#1)<>last(/AIX by Zabbix agent/system.uname,#2) INFO
Server has just been restarted

-

 change(/AIX by Zabbix agent/system.uptime)<0 INFO
/etc/passwd has been changed

-

 last(/AIX by Zabbix agent/vfs.file.cksum[/etc/passwd,sha256],#1)<>last(/AIX by Zabbix agent/vfs.file.cksum[/etc/passwd,sha256],#2) WARNING
Lack of available memory on server

-

 last(/AIX by Zabbix agent/vm.memory.size[available])<20M AVERAGE
{#FSNAME}: Free inodes is less than 20%

-

 last(/AIX by Zabbix agent/vfs.fs.inode[{#FSNAME},pfree])<20 WARNING
{#FSNAME}: Free disk space is less than 20%

-

 last(/AIX by Zabbix agent/vfs.fs.size[{#FSNAME},pfree])<20 WARNING
Zabbix agent is not available

For passive only agents, host availability is used with {$AGENT.TIMEOUT} as time threshold.

 max(/AIX by Zabbix agent/zabbix[host,agent,available],{$AGENT.TIMEOUT})=0 AVERAGE

Manual close: YES

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