Foglight for PowerVM focuses on the following components in your monitored PowerVM® environment:
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HMC (Hardware Management Console) manages a groups of PowerVM servers that are running in your integrated environment. |
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Managed Server is a collection of physical components managed by the PowerVM Hypervisor software layer. PowerVM Hypervisor divides physical system resources into isolated logical partitions. An HMC typically includes multiple logical partitions. |
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Partition encapsulates an operating system and application components that are running in a PowerVM Hypervisor. It has a dedicated share of the system’s physical resources. |
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VIOS provides a mechanism that enables logical partitions to share physical resources of a managed PowerVM server. |
Foglight™ for PowerVM relies on PowerVM HMC Agents to collect data from the monitored PowerVM® infrastructure. Foglight for Infrastructure features are provided with Foglight for Infrastructure.
To connect to the monitored Hardware Management Console (HMC), each PowerVM HMC Agent requires a valid user account. An HMC account requires a user name and password to connect to the HMC. You specify this information by creating a Foglight credential of the User Name and Password type (see Configuring PowerVM HMC agent credentials).
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Create a custom HMC role based on the hmcoperator role. |
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Ensure that the Issue virtual I/O server command permission is granted to the newly created HMC role. This permission enables the agent to issue the viosvrcmd command. Removing it causes the HSCL350B error, indicating that the user account does not have appropriate permissions. For more information about this error, visit: |
For more information about HMC roles, see your HMC documentation.
A valid user account is required to monitor an HMC. When you configure an HMC account (as described in Configuring HMC user accounts), you must ensure the HMC account information is provided to a Foglight credential:
You can create a credential using the Manage Credentials dashboard. To access this dashboard, on the navigation panel, under Dashboards, click Credentials. On the Credentials page that appears, click Manage Credentials. To create a credential using this dashboard, click Add.
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Type: User Name and Password. |
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User Name: The name of the HMC user account. |
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Password: The password associated with the HMC account. |
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Usage: Infrastructure Monitoring for PowerVM. |
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Target Host Name or Target Host Name: A mapping to the name or IP address of the host on which HMC is running. |
After creating the credential, you must ensure that the lockbox in which the credential is created is released to the Foglight Agent Manager associated with the PowerVM HMC Agent instance that you are about to create (see Creating PowerVM HMC agents). You can release a credential to a desired Agent Manager using the Manage Lockboxes dashboard. To access this dashboard, on the navigation panel, under Dashboards, click Credentials. On the Credentials page, click Manage Lockboxes.
For complete information about managing Foglight credentials and lockboxes, see the Foglight Administration and Configuration Help.
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