System prerequisites - bhm-kyndryl/Metraixbeat GitHub Wiki
What is necessary to execute this daemon ?
Almost nothing:
Required PIP packages (requests and pingparsing)
/opt/bin/python3 -m pip install requests
/opt/bin/python3 -m pip install "pingparsing<1.0.0"
Parameters.conf file (tuned or not)
Log directory (that exists)
"/var/run/" directory for storing "metraixbeat.pid" file
AIX version supported
I tested it with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and 7.1.
HPMSTAT metricset is only working with AIX 7.1
Not tested AIX 7.2. If somebody can tell me !
Power architecture supported
I tested it on P7/P8/P9 and it is ok.
Except HPMSTAT metricset, it is not very sensitive to Hardware change