Integrating Cloud services metrics with the performance monitoring tool

This topic describes the procedure for integrating Cloud services server nodes with the performance monitoring tool.

Performance monitoring collector (pmcollector) and sensor (pmsensors) services are installed under /opt/IBM/zimon.
Note: You must install the sensors on all the cloud service nodes, but you need to install the collectors on any one of the GPFS nodes. For installation instructions, see Manually installing the performance monitoring tool.
Two types of configurations are possible for the performance monitoring tool integration:
  • GPFS-based configuration (configuration by using GPFS commands). This type is recommended.
  • File-based configuration (manual configuration of the sensor files as described here)
For more information on each of these methods, see Configuring the performance monitoring tool.
  • GPFS-based configuration
    This topic describes the procedure for integrating cloud service metrics with the performance monitoring tool by using GPFS-based configuration.
  • File-based configuration
    This topic describes how to configure Cloud services with the performance monitoring tool by using file-based (manual) configurations.
Parent topic: Configuring and tuning your system for Cloud services