topic Re: AIX Alerting in Alerting

AIX Alerting

mrc15816 — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 07:14:32 GMT

We have deployed OneAgent on few hundred servers (Windows & Linux) and the Anomaly Detection (Infrastructure) worked flawlessly. We were asked to start monitoring AIX 7.1 & 7.2 machines and to our surprise we found that Anomaly Detection doesn’t apply for AIX Infrastructure.

We would like to get some guidance from anyone who have created some AIX monitoring i.e. CPU, Memory for alerting?

Any tips or suggestions appreciated.

Thanks

Raj

Re: AIX Alerting

MichalS — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 11:14:37 GMT

Hi,

In here you have some workaround for CPU alerting based on the host metrics.

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/shortlink/event-types-resource#cpu-saturation

Hope that helps

Re: AIX Alerting

mrc15816 — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 19:55:42 GMT

@MichalS, thank you for the link. Our understanding is we have come up with everything on alerting. I was messing with the metrics and cpu idle vs actual usage for AIX varies so much we can't use the cpu idle.

Re: AIX Alerting

Michal_Gebacki — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 11:25:49 GMT

Hey @mrc15816, how this issue ended eventually?

Re: AIX Alerting

Babar_Qayyum — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 06:34:49 GMT

Hello @mrc15816

Is there any feedback from your side to share with us?

Regards,

Babar

Re: AIX Alerting

mrc15816 — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 14:23:20 GMT

After many iterations we went with generic CPU usage custom alert and Memory likewise, which is still causing false positive alerts, but for time being it meets the alerting part, early 2022 is when we will meet IBM and DT to get more clarity

Re: AIX Alerting

Babar_Qayyum — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 07:08:54 GMT

Hello @mrc15816

Thank you for the update.

Regards,

Babar

Re: AIX Alerting

mrc15816 — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 22:21:16 GMT

The custom alerts served for short time and now we are looking at how can we achieve right alerting for Memory i.e. in Windows & Linux - we are looking at Memory & Swap before an event is generated but we cannot do that if setup as Custom alert. Any suggestions is greatly appreciated.