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Graphing ilcs in Grafana
Graphing of ilcs in AIX is not included in the nimon data output because ilcs comes from the mpstat command and ilcs is not part of the perfstat library that njmon uses. ilcs is “Involuntary Logical CPU switches” and occurs … Continue reading
Posted in AIX, IBM POWER, Performance tuning, Scripting
Tagged aix, IBM power, ilcs, perfomance, POWER, processor pool, processor switches, shared processor pools
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Capacity and performance check script
Another little script I wrote to check capacity aspects of an AIX LPAR. I call it capacity checks as it is basing most of the checks on counters and averaging out over 90 days. Some of this is based on … Continue reading
Zabbix API shell script to show maintenance association
Just a quick note to show how you can get a server to show which Zabbix maintenance group it is in upon login.
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Script to change WWPNS in LPAR profile
This is a script to interactively change WWPNs on adapters in an IBM POWER/Power systems LPAR profile. This is useful if you have to re-create adapters or even whole profiles as the HMC GUI does not allow you to set … Continue reading
Posted in AIX, HMC, IBM POWER, Scripting
Tagged aix, fibre adapter, hmc, hmc scripting, LPAR profile, VFC, WWPNs
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Starting tactic script for CPU allocation calculations on POWER9/10
Based on Earl Jew’s presentation on the 6th of October 2022, “Simplest starting tactic for Power10 AIX exploitation V1.2″. Excellent IBM POWER VUG materials can be found here: https://ibm.ent.box.com/s/6hn2orvig4r2peu6e39owmp07ewyyf4x And the meeting presentation replay here: https://ibm.ent.box.com/s/5atsp26sxup1ob04c3urbkiovj8epbax This is an analytic … Continue reading
Posted in AIX, IBM POWER, Linux, Performance tuning, Scripting
Tagged IBM, LPAR, POWER, Processor entitlement, script, smt, Tuning, virtual CPU
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Growing SAN LUN on Linux
This procedure works on SLES 15, should work on RHEL, but not yet tested. This script is for growing SAN LUNs running via multipath on Linux. Makes it look like AIX and just as easy! Growing SAN LUNs in Linux … Continue reading