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# HMC Insights # HMC Insights
Small utility to fetch metrics from one or more HMC's and push those to an InfluxDB time-series database. HMCi is a small utility to fetch metrics from one or more HMC's and push those to an InfluxDB time-series database.
## Usage Instructions ## Usage Instructions
- Ensure you have correct date/time and NTP running to keep it accurate! - Ensure you have correct date/time and NTP running to keep it accurate!
- Install *.deb* or *.rpm* file from [downloads](https://bitbucket.org/mnellemann/hmci/downloads/) or compile from source - Install HMCi *.deb* or *.rpm* file from [downloads](https://bitbucket.org/mnellemann/hmci/downloads/) or compile from source
- Copy the *doc/hmci.groovy.tpl* configuration template into */etc/hmci.groovy* and edit the configuration to suit your environment - Copy the *doc/hmci.groovy.tpl* configuration template into */etc/hmci.groovy* and edit the configuration to suit your environment
- Configure Grafana to communicate with your InfluxDB and import dashboards from *doc/* into Grafana (The dashboards are slightly modified versions of the dashboard provided by the nmon2influxdb tool) - Configure Grafana to communicate with your InfluxDB and import dashboards from *doc/* into Grafana (The dashboards are slightly modified versions of the dashboard provided by the nmon2influxdb tool)
- Run the *bin/hmci* program in a shell, as a @reboot cron task or setup a proper service :) - Run the *bin/hmci* program in a shell, as a @reboot cron task or setup a proper service :)
### Power Binaries
You can download [Grafana](https://www.power-devops.com/grafana) and [InfluxDB](https://www.power-devops.com/influxdb) ppc64le packages for most Linux distributions and AIX from the [Power DevOps](https://www.power-devops.com/) site.
## Development Information ## Development Information