A practical guide for Resource Monitoring and Control (RMC) / IBM, International Technical Support Organization [Keigo Matsubara ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Matsubara, Keigo.

International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

IBM redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer systems--Evaluation.

Computer systems.

System design.

AIX (Computer file).

Physical Description:

xvi, 198 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Austin, Tex.] : IBM, International Technical Support Organization, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Figures

Tables

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

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Chapter 1. Introduction

1.1 What is RMC

1.2 The evolution of RMC

1.3 Clustered environment

1.3.1 Peer domain

1.3.2 Management domain

1.4 RMC software packaging

1.4.1 Filesets and packages

1.4.2 Uninstall RMC from your system

1.4.3 Reinstall RMC on your system

Chapter 2. Architecture and components

2.1 A glance at the architecture

2.1.1 RMC clients

2.2 Resource, resource class, and attribute

2.2.1 Resource

2.2.2 Resource class

2.2.3 Attribute

2.3 Resource managers

2.3.1 Event Response resource manager (ERRM)

2.3.2 Audit Log resource manager

2.3.3 Configuration resource manager

2.3.4 File system resource manager

2.3.5 Host resource manager

2.3.6 Sensor resource manager

2.4 Expression

2.5 Condition, response, and action

2.5.1 Condition

2.5.2 Action

2.5.3 Response

2.5.4 Association between a condition with a response

2.6 Directory structure used by RMC

Chapter 3. Quick start: using RMC

3.1 AIX 5L Version 5.1 Web-based System Manager

3.1.1 Enable remote Web-based System Manager access

3.1.2 Install Web-based System Manager PC client

3.1.3 Connect to AIX 5L Version 5.1 system using the PC client

3.1.4 Connections to multiple hosts

3.2 RMC setup procedure

3.2.1 Basic RMC concepts

3.2.2 Step one: the Monitoring plug-in

3.2.3 Step two: the Conditions plug-in

3.2.4 Monitoring a condition

3.2.5 Viewing events

3.3 Customizing your RMC configuration

3.3.1 Properties of a condition

3.3.2 Monitored resources

3.3.3 General Condition Properties

3.3.4 Responses to a condition

3.4 Creating a new condition or response

3.4.1 Creating a new condition.

3.4.2 Creating a new response

3.4.3 The /home/remount script

3.4.4 Generating the event

Chapter 4. RMC command line interface

4.1 Test environment

4.2 Common variables and command flags

4.2.1 Environment variables

4.2.2 Command flags and pattern match operators

4.2.3 Persistent property value file

4.3 A peer domain cluster setup

4.3.1 Required filesets

4.3.2 Preparing your node security

4.3.3 Creating the cluster

4.3.4 Bringing the cluster online

4.3.5 Adding a node to the cluster

4.3.6 Bringing a node online

4.3.7 Stopping (offline) a node in the cluster

4.3.8 Removing a node from the cluster

4.3.9 Stopping (offline) a cluster

4.3.10 Removing a cluster

4.4 SRC commands

4.4.1 lssrc

4.4.2 nlssrc

4.4.3 Other SRC commands

4.5 RSCT commands

4.6 RMC commands

4.6.1 lsrsrc

4.6.2 lsrsrcdef

4.6.3 refrsrc

4.7 Sensor commands

4.7.1 lssensor

4.7.2 mksensor

4.7.3 chsensor

4.7.4 rmsensor

4.8 ERRM commands

4.8.1 Location concepts

4.8.2 lscondition

4.8.3 lsresponse

4.8.4 lscondresp

4.8.5 mkcondition

4.8.6 mkresponse

4.8.7 mkcondresp/startcondresp

4.8.8 chcondition

4.8.9 chresponse

4.8.10 stopcondresp/rmcondresp

4.8.11 rmcondition/rmresponse

4.9 Audit Log commands

4.10 Additional security configuration

4.10.1 Authorization

4.10.2 Remote node access

Chapter 5. Monitoring applications

5.1 How to monitor DB2 Universal Database

5.1.1 Components to be monitored

5.1.2 Configure a DB2 UDB monitor resource

5.2 Advanced monitoring

5.2.1 Define your own sensor

5.2.2 Advanced monitoring example

5.2.3 Creating your own response

5.3 How to send events to Tivoli Enterprise Console

5.3.1 System environment of TEC

5.3.2 Create an action script to report to TEC

Appendix A. Filesets level information.

RSCT and RMC filesets level

Web-based System Manager filesets level

Appendix B. Useful information

rsct.core.README

Description

Installation information

Advisories

World Wide Web access information

Perl/Expect installation

Abbreviations and acronyms

Related publications

IBM Redbooks

Other resources

Referenced Web sites

How to get IBM Redbooks

IBM Redbooks collections

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-191) and index.

OCLC:

191662335