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Collecting PowerVP system level data from the AIX command line.

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It’s possible to collect PowerVP system level agent data from the AIX command line.

You can collect this data by running Java and specifying the powervp.jar file, as shown below. You need to specify the hostname, username and password for the host where the system level agent resides. In the following example the hostname/IP address is 10.1.1.99 and the username/password is root and mypass1. I found the PowerVP JAR file in the default PowerVP install directory, which (on AIX) is usually /IBM/PowerVP/PowerVP_GUI_Installation/PowerVP/.

[root@gibbo][PowerVP]/ # ls -ltr | grep -i vp

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 88 Feb 17 2014 PowerVPInvestigationGuide.pdf -> /IBM/PowerVP/PowerVP_Installation/PowerVP_GUI_Installation/PowerVPInvestigationGuide.pdf

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 94 Feb 17 2014 PowerVPInstallationandUserGuide.pdf -> /IBM/PowerVP/PowerVP_Installation/PowerVP_GUI_Installation/PowerVPInstallationandUserGuide.pdf

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 4148 Feb 17 2014 PowerVP_Install_02_17_2014_15_41_33.log

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 3255 Apr 17 2014 PowerVP_Install_04_17_2014_14_32_02.log

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 3255 Apr 17 2014 PowerVP_Install_04_17_2014_16_34_11.log

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 51 Jul 2 11:44 Uninstall_PowerVP -> /IBM/PowerVP/PowerVP_Installation/Uninstall_PowerVP

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 66 Jul 2 11:44 PowerVP -> /IBM/PowerVP/PowerVP_Installation/PowerVP_GUI_Installation/PowerVP

[root@gibbo][PowerVP]/IBM/PowerVP/PowerVP_Installation/PowerVP_GUI_Installation # java -jar ./powervp.jar -monitor -host 10.1.1.99 -username root -password mypass1

This will connect you to the PowerVP system level agent on the specified host. It will continue to run and collect data until you enter ‘exit’ at the prompt.

PowerVP CLI v1.1.2

Latest supported Syslet version: 46

Using hostname: 10.1.1.99

Using username: root

Using supplied password

mrikey227 (10/28/14 2:47:51 PM) Config.getProductDirectory (616) : Product directory: /IBM/PowerVP

mrikey227 (10/28/14 2:47:51 PM) Config.<init> (206) : Reading powervp.properties

mrikey227 (10/28/14 2:47:51 PM) Config.getProductDirectory (616) : Product directory: /IBM/PowerVP

mrikey226 (10/28/14 2:47:51 PM) DebugOutputter.enableDefaultDebug (105) : Using default debug level

mrikey227 (10/28/14 2:47:51 PM) Config.<init> (278) : Locale loaded

mrikey227 (10/28/14 2:47:51 PM) Config.<init> (287) : Locale = en_US

mrikey227 (10/28/14 2:47:51 PM) Config.<init> (288) : isLeftToRight()=true

mrikey227 (10/28/14 2:47:51 PM) Config.setUIFont (1148) : Font left to defaults

mrikey227 (10/28/14 2:47:51 PM) Config.<init> (298) : CPU colors loaded

mrikey227 (10/28/14 2:47:51 PM) Config.<init> (310) : CPU font color loaded

mrikey227 (10/28/14 2:47:51 PM) Config.<init> (323) : AB Bus colors loaded

mrikey227 (10/28/14 2:47:51 PM) Config.<init> (335) : AB Bus font color loaded

mrikey227 (10/28/14 2:47:51 PM) Config.<init> (347) : WXYZ Bus colors loaded

mrikey227 (10/28/14 2:47:51 PM) Config.<init> (359) : WXYZ Bus font color loaded

mrikey227 (10/28/14 2:47:51 PM) Config.<init> (371) : GX Bus colors loaded

mrikey227 (10/28/14 2:47:51 PM) Config.<init> (383) : GX Bus font color loaded

mrikey227 (10/28/14 2:47:51 PM) Config.<init> (395) : MC Bus colors loaded

mrikey227 (10/28/14 2:47:51 PM) Config.<init> (407) : MC Bus font color loaded

mrikey227 (10/28/14 2:47:51 PM) Config.<init> (419) : Using Max PURR for CPU Util

mrikey227 (10/28/14 2:47:51 PM) Config.<init> (426) : Using all hardcoded for LSU Latency

mrikey227 (10/28/14 2:47:51 PM) Config.<init> (435) : Memory log size: 4196304

Connecting to 10.1.1.99........

Connecting.....

mrikey226 (10/28/14 2:47:51 PM) DebugOutputter.println (67) : Attempting a secure connection...

mrikey227 (10/28/14 2:47:51 PM) Config.getProductDirectory (616) : Product directory: /IBM/PowerVP

mrikey226 (10/28/14 2:47:52 PM) DebugOutputter.println (67) : Could not establish a secure connection with 10.1.1.99

Connection refused

mrikey226 (10/28/14 2:47:52 PM) DebugOutputter.println (67) : Attempting a non-secure connection...

mrikey226 (10/28/14 2:47:52 PM) DebugOutputter.println (67) : Connection established

mrikey226 (10/28/14 2:47:52 PM) DebugOutputter.println (67) : Output established

mrikey226 (10/28/14 2:47:52 PM) DebugOutputter.println (67) : Input stream established

Connection successful. Logging syslet data.

Type 'exit' to quit:

Please note: during my testing I found that the corresponding PowerVP data log file showed a size of zero until I exited from the running session (as shown below).

[root@gibbo][PowerVP]/IBM/PowerVP/Logs/10.1.1.99 # ls -ltr

total 18904

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 165028 Apr 22 2014 2014_04_22_15_40_48.prt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 2823088 Apr 22 2014 2014_04_22_15_40_10.slt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 2921488 Apr 22 2014 2014_04_22_15_43_23.slt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 592912 Apr 22 2014 2014_04_22_15_49_13.slt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 3163244 Apr 22 2014 2014_04_22_16_06_45.slt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 0 Oct 28 14:47 2014_10_28_14_47_51.slt

Type 'exit' to quit: exit

mrikey226 (10/28/14 2:53:03 PM) DebugOutputter.println (67) : Disconnected

Disconnected from 10.1.1.99. Exiting....

[root@gibbo][PowerVP]/IBM/PowerVP/PowerVP_Installation/PowerVP_GUI_Installation #

[root@gibbo][PowerVP]/IBM/PowerVP/Logs/10.1.1.99 # ls -ltr

total 23392

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 165028 Apr 22 2014 2014_04_22_15_40_48.prt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 2823088 Apr 22 2014 2014_04_22_15_40_10.slt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 2921488 Apr 22 2014 2014_04_22_15_43_23.slt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 592912 Apr 22 2014 2014_04_22_15_49_13.slt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 3163244 Apr 22 2014 2014_04_22_16_06_45.slt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 2294860 Oct 28 14:53 2014_10_28_14_47_51.slt

This got me thinking. Perhaps I could write a small script to wrap all this up and then schedule it from cron to collect data on a regular basis?

I wrote the beginnings of a basic expect script (shown below) which would allow me to run the script for a specified amount of time (in seconds) and pass the hostname, username and password from the AIX command line. I guess this would work fine from Linux as well?

[root@gibbo][PowerVP]/IBM/PowerVP/PowerVP_Installation/PowerVP_GUI_Installation # cat cg_powervp

#!/usr/bin/expect

set hostname [lindex $argv 0]

set username [lindex $argv 1]

set password [lindex $argv 2]

set duration [lindex $argv 3]

spawn cd /IBM/PowerVP/PowerVP_Installation/PowerVP_GUI_Installation/

spawn /usr/java6/jre/bin/java -jar /IBM/PowerVP/PowerVP_Installation/PowerVP_GUI_Installation/powervp.jar -monitor -host $hostname -username $username -password $password

expect "Type 'exit' to quit:"

sleep $duration

send "exit\r"

[root@gibbo][PowerVP]/IBM/PowerVP/PowerVP_Installation/PowerVP_GUI_Installation # ./cg_powervp 10.1.1.99 root mypass1 5

spawn cd /IBM/PowerVP/PowerVP_Installation/PowerVP_GUI_Installation/

spawn /usr/java6/jre/bin/java -jar /IBM/PowerVP/PowerVP_Installation/PowerVP_GUI_Installation/powervp.jar -monitor -host 10.1.1.99 -username root -password mypass1

PowerVP CLI v1.1.2

Latest supported Syslet version: 46

Using hostname: 10.1.1.99

Using username: root

Using supplied password

mrikey227 (10/29/14 8:41:10 PM) Config.getProductDirectory (616) : Product directory: /IBM/PowerVP

mrikey227 (10/29/14 8:41:10 PM) Config.<init> (206) : Reading powervp.properties

mrikey227 (10/29/14 8:41:10 PM) Config.getProductDirectory (616) : Product directory: /IBM/PowerVP

mrikey226 (10/29/14 8:41:10 PM) DebugOutputter.enableDefaultDebug (105) : Using default debug level

mrikey227 (10/29/14 8:41:10 PM) Config.<init> (278) : Locale loaded

mrikey227 (10/29/14 8:41:10 PM) Config.<init> (287) : Locale = en_US

mrikey227 (10/29/14 8:41:10 PM) Config.<init> (288) : isLeftToRight()=true

mrikey227 (10/29/14 8:41:10 PM) Config.setUIFont (1148) : Font left to defaults

mrikey227 (10/29/14 8:41:10 PM) Config.<init> (298) : CPU colors loaded

mrikey227 (10/29/14 8:41:10 PM) Config.<init> (310) : CPU font color loaded

mrikey227 (10/29/14 8:41:10 PM) Config.<init> (323) : AB Bus colors loaded

mrikey227 (10/29/14 8:41:10 PM) Config.<init> (335) : AB Bus font color loaded

mrikey227 (10/29/14 8:41:10 PM) Config.<init> (347) : WXYZ Bus colors loaded

mrikey227 (10/29/14 8:41:10 PM) Config.<init> (359) : WXYZ Bus font color loaded

mrikey227 (10/29/14 8:41:10 PM) Config.<init> (371) : GX Bus colors loaded

mrikey227 (10/29/14 8:41:10 PM) Config.<init> (383) : GX Bus font color loaded

mrikey227 (10/29/14 8:41:10 PM) Config.<init> (395) : MC Bus colors loaded

mrikey227 (10/29/14 8:41:10 PM) Config.<init> (407) : MC Bus font color loaded

mrikey227 (10/29/14 8:41:10 PM) Config.<init> (419) : Using Max PURR for CPU Util

mrikey227 (10/29/14 8:41:10 PM) Config.<init> (426) : Using all hardcoded for LSU Latency

mrikey227 (10/29/14 8:41:10 PM) Config.<init> (435) : Memory log size: 4196304

Connecting to 10.1.1.99........

Connecting.....

mrikey226 (10/29/14 8:41:10 PM) DebugOutputter.println (67) : Attempting a secure connection...

mrikey227 (10/29/14 8:41:11 PM) Config.getProductDirectory (616) : Product directory: /IBM/PowerVP

mrikey226 (10/29/14 8:41:11 PM) DebugOutputter.println (67) : Could not establish a secure connection with 10.1.1.99

Connection refused

mrikey226 (10/29/14 8:41:11 PM) DebugOutputter.println (67) : Attempting a non-secure connection...

mrikey226 (10/29/14 8:41:11 PM) DebugOutputter.println (67) : Connection established

mrikey226 (10/29/14 8:41:11 PM) DebugOutputter.println (67) : Output established

mrikey226 (10/29/14 8:41:11 PM) DebugOutputter.println (67) : Input stream established

Connection successful. Logging syslet data.

Type 'exit' to quit: [root@gibbo][PowerVP]/IBM/PowerVP/PowerVP_Installation/PowerVP_GUI_Installation #

Scheduling this script to run from roots crontab every hour was simple:

[root@gibbo][PowerVP]/ # crontab -l | grep powervp

0 * * * * /IBM/PowerVP/PowerVP_Installation/PowerVP_GUI_Installation/cg_powervp 10.1.1.99 root mypass1 600 > /var/log/cg_powervp.log 2>&1 #Collect PowerVP System Level Data

Once the data was collected, I was then able to transfer (ftp) the data to my laptop and load it into the PowerVP GUI and play back the recorded data.

[root@gibbo][PowerVP]/IBM/PowerVP/Logs/10.1.1.99 # ls -ltr

total 37848

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 165028 Apr 22 2014 2014_04_22_15_40_48.prt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 2823088 Apr 22 2014 2014_04_22_15_40_10.slt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 2921488 Apr 22 2014 2014_04_22_15_43_23.slt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 592912 Apr 22 2014 2014_04_22_15_49_13.slt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 3163244 Apr 22 2014 2014_04_22_16_06_45.slt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 2294860 Oct 28 14:53 2014_10_28_14_47_51.slt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 80328 Oct 29 10:29 2014_10_29_10_29_02.slt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 29788 Oct 29 10:31 2014_10_29_10_31_33.slt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 51448 Oct 29 10:36 2014_10_29_10_36_07.slt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 450468 Oct 29 10:37 2014_10_29_10_36_29.slt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 450468 Oct 29 10:39 2014_10_29_10_38_16.slt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 0 Oct 29 10:42 2014_10_29_10_42_57.slt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 450468 Oct 29 10:46 2014_10_29_10_45_32.slt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 0 Oct 29 19:02 2014_10_29_19_02_37.slt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 450468 Oct 29 19:03 2014_10_29_19_02_54.slt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 51448 Oct 29 20:01 2014_10_29_20_01_24.slt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 450468 Oct 29 20:02 2014_10_29_20_01_45.slt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 0 Oct 29 20:31 2014_10_29_20_31_26.slt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 0 Oct 29 20:32 2014_10_29_20_32_54.slt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 0 Oct 29 20:38 2014_10_29_20_38_08.slt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 450468 Oct 29 20:40 2014_10_29_20_39_01.slt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 51448 Oct 29 20:41 2014_10_29_20_41_10.slt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 4422368 Oct 29 21:10 2014_10_29_21_00_01.slt

Note: Currently only system level data can be recorded using the command line option. Partition level agent recording can only be done using the client GUI.

Modified by cggibbo

lpar2rrd error - Can't use string ("") as a SCALAR ref..lpar2rrd.pl line 533

cggibbo Tags: argument while at 532. "strict ref a ("") as /home/lpar2rrd/lpar2rrd/l... numeric in scalar line 533. can't "" (<=) refs" le string use isn't 4 Comments 10,471 Views

I was attempting to configure a new installation of lpar2rrd (version 2.65) for a customer today when I encountered the following error during the initial load of data from the HMC:

lpar2rrd@nim [/home/lpar2rrd/lpar2rrd]$ ./load.sh

LPAR2RRD version 2.65

HMC : hmc01

managed system : 750-1 (type_model*serial : 8233-E8B*0646D0P)

HMC version : 77301

There is no RRD: attempting to do initial load, be patient, it might take some time

sample rate : 60 seconds

fetching HMC : hmc01:750-DR CPU lpar config

fetching HMC : hmc01:750-DR CPU/MEM global config

sys change : hmc01:750-DR:100

installing WWW : install-html.sh 2.59

An error occured in lpar2rrd, check ./error.log and output of load.sh

$ tail -3 ./error.log

Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric le (<=) at /home/lpar2rrd/lpar2rrd/lpar2rrd.pl line 532.

Can't use string ("") as a SCALAR ref while "strict refs" in use at /home/lpar2rrd/lpar2rrd/lpar2rrd.pl line 533.

Wed 23 Nov 12:04:09 2011 : hmc01 : An error occured in lpar2rrd.pl, check ./error.log and output of load.sh

We were able to get this working by hacking the lpar2rrd.pl script.

The following code:

if ( $loadhours <= 0 || $loadmins <= 0) { # workaround as this sometimes is negative , need to check it out ...

my $t1 = localtime($$last_rec);

my $t2 = localtime($t);

print STDERR "$act_time: time issue 1 : $host:$managedname $loadhours $loadmins \n";

print STDERR " Last saved record (HMC lslparutil time) : $$last_rec ; HMC time : $t \n";

print "$act_time: time issue 1 : $host:$managedname $loadhours $loadmins \n" if $DEBUG ;

print " Last saved record (HMC lslparutil time) : $$last_rec ; HMC time : $t \n" if $DEBUG ;

$loadhours = 3;

$loadmins = 140;

}

Was changed to:

$loadmins = 140;

if ( $loadhours <= 0 || $loadmins <= 0) { # workaround as this sometimes is negative , need to check it out ...

my $t1 = localtime($$last_rec);

my $t2 = localtime($t);

print STDERR "$act_time: time issue 1 : $host:$managedname $loadhours $loadmins \n";

print STDERR " Last saved record (HMC lslparutil time) : $$last_rec ; HMC time : $t \n";

print "$act_time: time issue 1 : $host:$managedname $loadhours $loadmins \n" if $DEBUG ;

print " Last saved record (HMC lslparutil time) : $$last_rec ; HMC time : $t \n" if $DEBUG ;

$loadhours = 3;

}

The initial load then ran successfully.

Then we changed the code back to its previous configuration:

if ( $loadhours <= 0 || $loadmins <= 0) { # workaround as this sometimes is negative , need to check it out ...

my $t1 = localtime($$last_rec);

my $t2 = localtime($t);

print STDERR "$act_time: time issue 1 : $host:$managedname $loadhours $loadmins \n";

print STDERR " Last saved record (HMC lslparutil time) : $$last_rec ; HMC time : $t \n";

print "$act_time: time issue 1 : $host:$managedname $loadhours $loadmins \n" if $DEBUG ;

print " Last saved record (HMC lslparutil time) : $$last_rec ; HMC time : $t \n" if $DEBUG ;

$loadhours = 3;

$loadmins = 140;

}

After which, all subsequent loads worked as expected! Fortunately my colleague, Nathan Edwards, had already hit this bug a while ago and was able to help me. Thanks again Nathan!

According to Pavel Hampel (lpar2rrd developer), the next version of lpar2rrd (2.66) will fix this issue.

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lpar2rrd error - Can't use string ("") as a SCALAR ref..lpar2rrd.pl line 533