Procedure to enable centralized statistics gathering from a VIO
server via WLM
The Virtual I/O (VIO) servers should not have extraneous software
installed on them, therefore the performance toolbox software is not
installed or enabled. However the Workload Manager (WLM) is installed
and should be enabled in passive mode. The procedure to enable WLM on
the VIO servers follows:
This procedure assumes there is a centralized storage location for
the WLM statistics shared to the VIO server via NFS. In the following
example the centralized storage is located on the P3 NIM server whose
hostname is "pppapnim01". The specific directory being shared via NFS
from "pppapnim01" is "/prfdmce0".
This procedure also uses an example VIO server hostname of
"pppadvio01".
Establish the NFS mount from the centralized NFS storage location.
/usr/sbin/mknfsmnt -f /prfdmce0 -d /prfdmce0 -h pppapnim01-mc2 -M sys -t rw -w bg -ABSXYZ -jqg
Add a directory to the centralized NFS storage location to contain
the statistics files from the VIO server.
mkdir -p /prfdmce0/ddadvio01/wlm
Add a record line to "/etc/inittab" to start the WLM statistics
gathering daemon
mkitab 'ptxwlm:2:respawn:/usr/bin/xmwlm -d /prfdmce0/pppadvio01/wlm -n xmwlm > /dev/null 2>&1'
Start the WLM in "passive" mode.
/usr/sbin/wlmcntrl -p > /dev/console 2>&1
Add a record to the "/etc/inittab" to start the WLM at system boot
time.
mkitab -i rc 'wlm:2:once:/usr/sbin/wlmcntrl -p > /dev/console 2>&1'
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