AIX Server Performance Monitoring

• eG Enterprise: Total Performance Monitoring for AIX Servers and Applications

  eG Enterprise is a 100% web-based performance monitoring solution for AIX infrastructures. eG Enterprise provides a single console from which administrators can track the status of their AIX server farms, receive alerts when problems happen, view reports on historical performance, and plan the capacity of their server farms.

  To monitor a AIX server, eG Universal Agent can be deployed on the server in a matter of minutes with very little configuration required. Agentless monitoring is also supported. Administrators can choose the servers to be monitored with agents (e.g., critical production servers) and those that can be monitored in an agentless manner (e.g., staging servers).

  

  Key features include:

  • Choose either agent-based and agentless monitoring capabilities for each server in the infrastructure
  • End-to-end visibility with low overhead on the target systems
  • Use a single agent to monitor all key applications running on the same server
  • Auto-upgrading agents require minimal ongoing maintenance
  • Extensive historical reports included for extensive, out-of-the-box analysis and planning
  • Cost-effective monitoring of the target infrastructure using our universal agent deployment and server-based licensing model
   

• eG Innovations delivers a robust, reliable and extremely valuable solution to deliver maximum uptime and user satisfaction. Pre-emptive alerting helps us to address performance issues immediately before they affect system and application availability

  

  - Mike Montano, Senior Manager, Allscripts  

• Insights into All Aspects of AIX Performance

  

  How eG Enterprise monitors AIX servers and applications

  To monitor server hardware, eG Enterprise relies on native AIX commands, and integration with IBM Director is also supported. Monitoring of the server operating system is based on native commands and scripts. Every aspect of operating system performance - including the usage of key CPU, memory, disk and network resources are tracked, plus system logs.

  The same agent that monitors the AIX operating system can also be used to monitor applications running on the server. Popular applications like the IBM WebSphere web server, IBM WebSphere Java application server, IBM DB2 Universal Database (UDB), IBM WebSphere MQ messaging server, etc., can be monitored. Other applications hosted on AIX such as Oracle database servers, WebLogic or JBoss application servers, enterprise applications like SAP and others can also be monitored using eG Enterprise. For a complete list supported platforms, see here.

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• What eG Enterprise Monitoring for AIX Reveals

  

  eG Enterprise offers ready answers to all the key questions that an IT administrator may have about an AIX system:

  • Is there any hardware error? Is temperature ok? Is voltage within limits?
  • Is there a CPU bottleneck on the server? Which process(es) are taking up CPU?
  • Is memory utilization on the server very high? Is there a memory leak with any of the applications running on the server?
  • Is there excessive read/write operations happening on any of the disks on the server? Which applications are the top I/O producers?
  • What times of day is the server overloaded and where is the resource bottleneck?
  • Are there any errors in the server's system logs?
  • Did the server reboot suddenly and when?
  • Are there excessive TCP retransmissions happening from the server?
  • How many TCP connections are established on the server and is this value normal?
  • Are the key application processes running?
  • Is there excessive memory paging happening on the server which may be indicative of a memory bottleneck?
  • If the AIX server has multiple LPARs, which LPARs are taking up more resources and why?

  For effective AIX monitoring, administrators need access to metrics from every layer of the server. They should be able to compare performance across these layers to diagnose exactly where the performance bottleneck lies. While server monitoring is important, administrators also need to be able to look in-depth into application performance. eG Enterprise addresses all of these key AIX monitoring requirements.

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• Integrated Monitoring of AIX and Windows Servers

  

  eG Enterprise uses a unique layer model representation to depict the performance of different layers of an AIX server (e.g., hardware, operating system, network, TCP/IP, application processes, etc.). A similar layer model representation is also used for other operating systems that eG Enterprise supports (e.g., Microsoft Windows, Solaris, Linux, HPUX, OS/400, and OpenVMS). This way, eG Enterprise provides a single pane of glass from where administrators can monitor their heterogeneous multi-vendor data center servers from a single console and with a single unified representation model. This greatly simplifies the monitoring and management of heterogeneous server farms.

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• Alerting and Reporting on AIX Performance

  

  Baselines for all the key metrics are pre-defined in eG Enterprise based on industry standard best practices. eG Enterprise can also determine automatic thresholds for other metrics based on an analysis of past history. The actual metrics are compared with the thresholds to determine where the problems lie in the infrastructure.

  With eG Enterprise in place, AIX administrators can start receiving alerts when a key process fails, a critical event is logged in the server log, or when a disk fills up.

  eG Enterprise also provides extensive web-based reporting of all the collected metrics. Admins can receive periodic, detailed reports of the performance of their server farm without even logging into the console.

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Key Benefits

• Single-pane-of-glass monitoring of AIX server farms
• Helps eliminate downtime and application slowdowns with automatic root-cause diagnosis and proactive alerts
• Lowers support costs
• 100% web-based architecture for anywhere-access
• Data analysis, trending, and reporting capabilities for future planning and increased AIX server ROI