IBM Integrated Virtualization Manager sensor

Sensor name that is used in the GUI and logs

IvmSensor

Resources discovered by the sensor

The process for discovering an IVM is like a standard computer system. The most important issues that impact discovery is connectivity and authentication. If the account configured in the Agile Service Manager access list can connect to the IVM, the discovery is successful.

Through the IVM, the following resources can be discovered:

• The integrated management console.
• The system managed by the IVM (System p or System i computer systems).
• The logical partitions (LPARs) defined within the managed system.

Depending on the discovery scope, discovering a computer system (LPAR) can actually discover two instances of the computer system:

• The computer system (LPAR) discovered by the IVM sensor.
• The computer system discovered by the normal Agile Service Manager sensor for the particular operating system, such as Linux® or AIX®, among others.

This instance is discovered just like a physical Linux or AIX computer system. There are no special Agile Service Manager sensors created to discover these virtual computer systems any differently than the physical computer systems they emulate.

The computer system (LPAR) discovered by the IVM is a shallow computer system. The following key attributes, which form the naming rule, are discovered:

• Manufacturer
• Model
• Serial number
• LPAR ID, which are naming rule attributes.

After discovery, Agile Service Manager merges the two instances into a single computer system.

Model objects created

The sensor creates the following model objects:

• sys.ComputerSystem
• sys.ControlSoftware
• sys.IVM
• sys.SystemPComputerSystem
• sys.VIOS