Configuring the performance monitoring tool

The performance monitoring tool, collector, sensors, and proxies, are a part of the IBM Spectrum Scale™ distribution. The tool is installed with the GPFS™ core packages on all nodes. The tools packages are small, approximately 400 KB for the sensors and 1200 KB for the collector.

Note: The tool is supported on Linux nodes only.

For information on the usage of ports for the performance monitoring tool, see the Firewall recommendations for Performance Monitoring tool.