With power5 processors, you can share the processor capacity between the lpars. The vmstat has 2 extra numbers:
vmstat 1 1
System configuration: lcpu=2 mem=512MB ent=0.10
kthr memory page faults cpu
----- ----------- ------------------------ ------------ -----------------------
r b avm fre re pi po fr sr cy in sy cs us sy id wa pc ec
0 0 180484 5857 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 190 182 1 5 93 0 0.01 10.7
From man vmstat:
pc
Number of physical processors consumed. Displayed only if the partition is running with
shared processor.
ec
Patch the server so it accepts trends messages: http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2007/01/msg00236.html
Client script
Make sure the command iostat is installed (for debian/ubuntu this is package =sysstat=)
Add the script to the file clientlaunch.cfg on the linux client so it is executed every 5 minutes (remove the .txt extension):
If you have strange graphs, there is a way to create the graphs like hobbit should do. You can completely remove any Xymon code from the graph generation and see if the graph image still looks weird.
find the needed options
Get one of the graphs in your browser and note the URL for the graph image. (If using Firefox,then right-click and "View image" will bring up only the graph image, with the URL for this in the address bar). It will be something like (one long line):
