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Henrik -- some notes on AIX and the 4.3 do_vmstat.c

list Stef Coene
Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:42:28 +0200
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On Wednesday 10 October 2007, Kauffman, Tom wrote:
We're starting to move to the new IBM P6 environment, so I started
looking at backing the 4.3 do_vmstat.c into 4.2.

This pretty well showed I'm not a C programmer.

However -- I added the two additional fields, cpu_ec and cpu_pc to the
AIX structure in the 4.2 do_vmstat.c, recompiled, and the result works
with the new P6 box. It will also work with new P5 or earlier systems,
as the two extra values will just stay at <NAN> in the RRD. For existing
older systems, I used 'rrdaddsource' from the RRD web site to add the
cpu_pc and cpu_ec datasets to my existing RRD and everything is working
just fine.
Take a look at
http://www.docum.org/twiki/bin/view/Hobbit/AixPower5
and
http://www.docum.org/twiki/bin/view/Hobbit/AixTips
if you are running hobbit client on aix.


Stef