Node exporter for AIX

Prometheus exporter for hardware and OS metrics exposed by AIX, written in C++ utilizing the libperfstat library supplied with AIX.

Collectors

There is varying support for various subsystems. The table below below list all existing collectors.

All collectors are enabled by default. If collectors are specified on the command line, only thoes collectors will be enabled.

Default port

Default port used by this node exporter is :9100.

The port can be changed with the -p flag:

./build/node_exporter_aix -p 9101

Enabled by default

flag	Description
-C	Compat statistics, emulate linux node_exporter
-c	CPU statistics
-A	disk adapter statistics
-D	disk path statistics
-M	memory page statistics
-m	memory statistics
-d	disk statistics
-i	net interface statistics
-a	net adapter statistics
-b	net buffer statistics
-p	partition statistics

Install package

installp -ac -d <package_file.bff>

This will install the program into /usr/local/bin

The install will also create a SRC service named node_exporter_aix. Deinstall should remove the service. Installing will also start the exporter with default parameters.

Running

If the exporter was installed as a .bff packge the exporter is started using SRC:

startsrc -s node_exporter_aix

To configure parameters, you can either add parameters to the SRC service with the -a parameter:

chssys -p /usr/local/bin/node_exporter_aix -s node_exporter_aix -u root -R -S -f 9 -n 15 -a "-cdP"

Please note, the service is overwritten on with the .bff package.

Building and running

Prerequisites:

• AIX 7.1 (older may work, not tested)

• GCC C++17 compatible compiler (AIX Toolbox)

• GNU Make (AIX Toolbox)

• bos.adt.insttools (lpp, for packaging as .bff)

Building:

export PATH=/opt/freeware/bin:$PATH # If required, to use GNU make
git submodule init
git submodule update
make
./build/node_exporter_aix

To see all available configuration flags:

./build/node_exporter_aix -h

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md. We welcome issues, pull requests and general suggestions.

License

This program is distributed under the terms of the MIT license.

See LICENSE for details.