Monitoring and administering IBM Spectrum Scale FPO clusters

IBM Spectrum Scale™ supports the use of the simple network management protocol (SNMP) for monitoring the status and configuration of the IBM Spectrum Scale cluster. By using an SNMP application, the system administrator can get a detailed view of the system and receive instant notification of important events, such as a node or disk failure.

The SNMP agent software consists of a master agent and a set of subagents, which communicate with the master agent through an agent/subagent protocol, the AgentX protocol in this case.

The SNMP subagent runs on a collector node of the IBM Spectrum Scale cluster. The collector node is designated by the system administrator by using the mmchnode command.

The Net-SNMP master agent, also called as the SNMP daemon, or snmpd, must be installed on the collector node to communicate with the IBM Spectrum Scale subagent and with your SNMP management application. Net-SNMP is included in most Linux distributions and must be supported by your Linux vendor.

For more information about enabling SNMP support, see GPFS SNMP support.

Refer to the GPFS SNMP support topic in the IBM Spectrum Scale: Administration Guide for further information about enabling SNMP support.

If using IBM® BigInsights®

When you install IBM Spectrum Scale, you can enable IBM Spectrum Scale monitoring using the IBM BigInsights installation program. If the monitoring was not enabled at the time of installation, it can be done later by installing the Net-SNMP master agent on the collector node to communicate with the IBM Spectrum Scale subagent and the IBM BigInsights Console. Detailed instructions are provided in the Enabling monitoring for GPFS topic in the IBM InfoSphere® BigInsights Version 2.1.2 documentation.

If using Platform Symphony® or Hadoop distribution from other vendor

You can leverage IBM Spectrum Scale SNMP integration for centralized monitoring of the IBM Spectrum Scale cluster. Follow the procedure outlined in GPFS SNMP support.