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Ganglia

Description

Ganglia is a scalable, real-time monitoring and execution environment with all execution requests and statistics expressed in an open well-defined XML format.

In the base setup, i.e., the upstream source code, Ganglia does not provide any metrics for Power5/6/7/8-specific capabilities.

You should install the appropriate additional Ganglia module (please see further below) if you want any of the following features:

• Shared Processor LPAR statistics, i.e., things like capped/uncapped, capacity weight, CPU entitlement etc.
• Physical core consumption in units of IBM rPerf or SPEC CPU2006 metrics
• Active Memory Expansion (AME) statistics on Power7/8 systems
• Active Memory Sharing (AMS) statistics on Power6/7/8 systems
• Monitoring of individual Ethernet adapters, including Shared Ethernet Adapters (SEA)
• Monitoring of individual Fibre Channel adapters
• Monitoring of individual Disk devices

Here you find descriptions of all available additional metrics for AIX and Linux on Power that I have written:

• DSO for IBM POWER extensions (module mod_ibmpower)
• DSO for IBM rPerf and SPEC CPU2006 metrics (module mod_ibmrperf)
• AIX DSO for Active Memory Expansion (AME) (module mod_ibmame)
• DSO for Active Memory Sharing (AMS) (module mod_ibmams)
• AIX DSO for Fibre Channel devices (module mod_ibmfc)
• AIX DSO for Network devices (module mod_ibmnet)
• Linux DSO for Network devices (module mod_netif)
• AIX DSO for Disk devices (module mod_aixdisk)

Note:

• More documentation on these additional Power5/6/7/8 metrics for AIX and Linux on Power can be found here.

Homepage: http://www.ganglia.info

Current version: v3.7.2

Downloads

Current version

• RPMs for Ganglia v3.7.2

Older versions (still supported)

• RPMs for Ganglia v3.7.1
• RPMs for Ganglia v3.6.1

Older versions (not supported anymore)

• RPMs for Ganglia v3.6.0
• RPMs for Ganglia v3.5.0
• RPMs for Ganglia v3.4.0
• RPMs for Ganglia v3.3.7
• RPMs for Ganglia v3.3.6
• RPMs for Ganglia v3.3.5 not recommended! (please see below)
• RPMs for Ganglia v3.3.1 not recommended! (please see below)
• RPMs for Ganglia v3.2.0 not recommended! (please see below)
• RPMs for Ganglia v3.1.7
• RPMs for Ganglia v3.1.2

Please note:

• If you are running Ganglia version 3.1.X or higher on AIX and are experiencing problems, e.g., only the heartbeat metric seems to work, please read the hints here!.
• The Ganglia versions 3.2.0, 3.3.1 and 3.3.5 are not recommended to use because of BUG327: memory leak when receive channel is not configured or not hearing any data which is fixed again in version 3.3.6.

Even older version

• RPMs for Ganglia v3.0.7

All versions

• RPMs for Ganglia v3.7.2
• RPMs for Ganglia v3.7.1
• RPMs for Ganglia v3.6.1
• RPMs for Ganglia v3.6.0
• RPMs for Ganglia v3.5.0
• RPMs for Ganglia v3.4.0
• RPMs for Ganglia v3.3.7
• RPMs for Ganglia v3.3.6
• RPMs for Ganglia v3.3.5
• RPMs for Ganglia v3.3.1
• RPMs for Ganglia v3.2.0
• RPMs for Ganglia v3.1.7
• RPMs for Ganglia v3.1.2
• RPMs for Ganglia v3.0.7
• RPMs for Ganglia v3.0.5
• RPMs for Ganglia v3.0.4
• RPMs for Ganglia v3.0.3

Ganglia web interfaces

• Ganglia web 2.0 interface (this is recommended to use)
• Ganglia web 2.0 interface integration with RRDCached
• My "enhanced" Ganglia web interface (based on version 3.0.7)

Other (useful) stuff

Here are some more (useful) things I have been working on

• Insert device specific information (network, disk, adapter) into Ganglia via gmetric
• Ganglia best practices