sysmon/client/doc/readme-aix.md

AIX Notes

Works on IBM Power VIO (Virtual IO) servers, as well as regular IBM Power AIX installations.

Installation

We require Java 8, which should already be installed on AIX, or is available to install. The RPM packages are "noarch" Java bytecode, so we can use the --ignoreos option to install:

rpm -ivh --ignoreos sysmon-client-*.rpm sysmon-plugins-*.rpm

Run automatically at boot

See the sysv-init.md file for instructions, or run from inittab:

mkitab "sysmon:2:respawn:env JAVA_HOME=/usr/java8_64 /opt/sysmon/client/bin/client -s http://10.x.y.z:9925/metrics"
init q

Upgrades

To upgrade the packages:

rpm -Uvh --ignoreos sysmon-*.noarch.rpm

To restart sysmon-client process after upgrade:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/sysmon-client stop; /etc/rc.d/init.d/sysmon-client start
# or, if running from inittab:
kill -HUP `ps -e -o pid,comm,args | grep sysmon-client | grep java | awk '{print $1}'`