xmquery service dependency for DX UIM robots on AIX

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

Is the xmquery service needed for AIX robots to run? 

Environment

DX UIM 23.4.*

Cause

Guidance

Resolution

On an AIX (IBM's UNIX OS) system, xmquery is a command-line utility provided by the HACMP (High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing) or PowerHA suite. It's used to query cluster-related information, such as topology, status, or configuration of nodes in a PowerHA cluster.

What xmquery Does:
It interacts with the cluster management software to retrieve data about the current cluster setup.

It's typically used for monitoring or debugging cluster state by system administrators or scripts related to cluster management.

A DX UIM robot does not depend or need  PowerHA/HACMP tools. Unless you're using a UIM probe (e.g., logmon) to monitor xmquery output or PowerHA state, it is unrelated.