NagiosXI integration with LPAR2RRD

If you have IBM Power hardware, then you probably already know that nobody knows your LPAR resources better than LPAR2RRD or XorMon.

If you use any of the nagios-based monitoring products or Nagios Core, NagiosXI, then if you want to monitor your LPAR resources, you might encounter two situations:

1. – If you use lpar2rrd, then you already have the lpar2rrd agent installed and gathering performance info from your LPARs. If you do have the agent, and you also want to monitor your servers using nagios, you might also install the NRPE agent or query remotely the LPARs via SSH or SNMP. In this case, then you are querying your boxes for performance data twice, therefore wasting resources, and getting two metrics instead of one.
2. – If you are not using lpar2rrd and using only nagios resources, then you are not getting all the right metrics about your LPAR resources, or worst: perhaps you are getting inaccurate data.

And what’s the best possible scenario? –Monitoring Integration.

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NagiosXI integration with LPAR2RRD