sysmon/plugins/sysmon-aix

AIX Plugin

Processor Extension

The processor extension works for both AIX and Linux on the Power ppc64/ppc64le architecture.

Metrics reported are:

• mode - Processor mode, Capped or Uncapped
• type - Processor type, Shared or Dedicated
• lcpu - Number of logical CPU's available for this partition
• ent - Processor entitlements available for this partition
• user - Indicates the percentage of the entitled processing capacity used while executing at the user level (application).
• sys - Indicates the percentage of the entitled processing capacity used while executing at the system level (kernel).
• idle - Indicates the percentage of the entitled processing capacity unused while the partition was idle and did not have any outstanding disk I/O request.
• wait - Indicates the percentage of the entitled processing capacity unused while the partition was idle and had outstanding disk I/O request(s).
• physc - Indicates the number of physical processors consumed.
• entc - Indicates the percentage of the entitled capacity consumed.
• lbusy - Indicates the percentage of logical processor(s) utilization that occurred while executing at the user and system level.

Memory Extension

Metrics reported are:

• total - Total amount of memory (in KB).
• used - real memory consumption (in KB).
• free - free memory for use (in KB).
• pin - pinned memory consumption (in KB).
• virtual - virtual memory consumption (in KB).
• available - available memory (if freeing up virtual) (in KB).
• paged - paging space consumption (in KB).

Pinning a memory region prohibits the pager from stealing pages from the pages backing the pinned memory region.

Disk Extension

Only reports first device found. Improvements on the TODO.

Metrics reported are:

• device - Name of device.
• reads - The total number of KB read.
• writes - The total number of KB written.