11 Systems Infrastructure Virtualization Platform

This chapter provides information about the Systems Infrastructure Virtualization Platform metrics. For each metric, it provides the following information:

  • Description

  • Metric table

The metric table can include some or all of the following: target version, default collection frequency, default warning threshold, default critical threshold, and alert text.

11.1 Response

This metric category provides information about the status of the Systems Infrastructure Virtualization Platform target.

11.1.1 Status

This metric provides the status of the Systems Infrastructure Virtualization Platform target.

Target Version Evaluation and Collection Frequency Default Warning Threshold Default Critical Threshold Alert Text
All versions Every Minute Not Defined 0 %target% is Down.

11.2 Power Usage Summary

The metrics in this category provide information about power usage.

11.2.1 Power One Minute Average

This metric provides the average power consumption per minute.

Target Version Collection Frequency
All versions Every 15 Minutes

11.2.2 Current Power

This metric provides information about the current power.

Target Version Collection Frequency
All versions Every 15 Minutes

11.2.3 Type

This metric provides information about the power type.

Target Version Collection Frequency
All versions Every 15 Minutes

11.3 Virtual Platform Synchronization

The metric in this category provide information about virtual platform synchronization.

11.3.1 Is Platform Synchronization Required

This metric specifies whether platform synchronization is required.

Target Version Collection Frequency
All versions Every 10 Minutes

11.4 Virtualization Platform Status

The metrics in this category provide information about the status of the virtualization platform.

11.4.1 State

This metric provides the state of the platform.

Target Version Collection Frequency
All versions Every 10 Minutes

11.4.2 Health

This metric provides the health of the platform.

Target Version Evaluation and Collection Frequency Default Warning Threshold Default Critical Threshold Alert Text
All versions Every 10 Minutes UNKNOWN DEGRADED|MAINTENANCE Virtual Platform SMF service health is %value%

11.4.3 Boot Time

This metric provides the time that the system started or booted.

Target Version Collection Frequency
All versions Every 10 Minutes

11.5 Memory Usage Information

The metrics in this category provide information about memory usage.

11.5.1 Percentage Used

This metric provides the used memory as a percentage of total memory.

Target Version Collection Frequency
All versions Every 15 Minutes

11.5.2 Total Memory

This metric provides the total amount of memory.

Target Version Collection Frequency
All versions Every 15 Minutes

11.5.3 Percentage Kernel

This metric provides the percentage of memory used by the guest.

Target Version Collection Frequency
All versions Every 15 Minutes

11.5.4 Percentage in Guests

This metric provides the percentage of memory used by the guest

Target Version Collection Frequency
All versions Every 15 Minutes

11.5.5 Percentage Free

This metric provides the percentage of free memory.

Target Version Collection Frequency
All versions Every 15 Minutes

11.5.6 Name of Memory Type

This metric provides the type of memory.

Target Version Collection Frequency
All versions Every 15 Minutes

11.6 Datalink Usage

The metrics in this category provide information about datalink usage.

11.6.1 Outbound Octets count

This metric provides the number of outbound octets.

Target Version Collection Frequency
All versions Every 15 Minutes

11.6.2 Maximum Bandwidth Percentage

This metric provides the maximum bandwidth percentage.

Target Version Collection Frequency
All versions Every 15 Minutes

11.6.3 Maximum Bandwidth

This metric provides the maximum bandwidth.

Target Version Collection Frequency
All versions Every 15 Minutes

11.6.4 Is datalink physical

This metric specifies if this datalink is physical.

Target Version Collection Frequency
All versions Every 15 Minutes

11.6.5 Inbound Octets count

This metric provides the number of inbound octets.

Target Version Collection Frequency
All versions Every 15 Minutes

11.6.6 Datalink Name

This metric provides the datalink name.

Target Version Collection Frequency
All versions Every 15 Minutes

11.7 CPU Usage Information

The metrics in this category provide information about CPU usage.

11.7.1 Percent usage in user space

This metric provides the percentage of CPU usage in the user space.

Target Version Collection Frequency
All versions Every 15 Minutes

11.7.2 Overall Busy Percentage

This metric provides the percentage of CPU that is busy.

Target Version Collection Frequency
All versions Every 15 Minutes

11.7.3 Percent usage in kernel

This metric provides the percentage of CPU usage in the kernel.

Target Version Collection Frequency
All versions Every 15 Minutes

11.7.4 Percent idle

This metric provides the percentage of CPU that is idle.

Target Version Collection Frequency
All versions Every 15 Minutes

11.8 Access Point Response

The metric in this category provides information about the status of the access point.

11.8.1 Status

This metric provides the status of the access point.

There is no collection defined for this metric because the Access Point Response metrics are invoked by the platform to compute access point availability.

Target Version Default Warning Threshold Default Critical Threshold Alert Text
All versions Not Defined 0 Access point is down