LPAR Clients (IBM Logical Partitioning Clients) Managed by VIO Servers
To configure collection for IBM LPAR Clients, take the following steps to enable probes:
1. Access the Host Inventory window.
Admin > Data Collection > Host Inventory
2. In the Host Inventory window, either use Discover Hosts to collect the initial data for the LPAR Clients or search for the LPAR Clients.
3. Configure capacity probes for each of the LPAR Clients according to the following guidelines:
• Capacity: enable.
• HBA Probe:
• If the disks are given to LPAR Clients using VSCSI, the HBA Probe should be disabled since the LPAR Clients are not connected directly to the SAN.
• If the disks are given to LPAR Clients using NPIV, the HBA Probe should be enabled.
• Volume Manager: enable.
• Multipathing:
• If the LPAR Clients have any third-party multipathing software such as EMC PowerPath or Hitachi HDLM Multipathing, the Multipath Probe should be enabled.
• If the LPAR Clients are using native AIX multipathing, the Multipath Probe should be disabled.