Ensure that Foglight for Infrastructure is installed on the Management Server. For installation instructions, see the Foglight for Infrastructure Release Notes.
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To monitor PowerVM® servers, you need a running instance of the PowerVM HMC Agent. This agent is provided with Foglight for Infrastructure. |
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.
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