Agent for PowerVM: monitoring renamed "Shared CPU Pool"

Products

• CA Automic Sysload

Issue/Introduction

Error Message :
The renamed CPU Pool appears twice in the Shared CPU Pool table

When renaming a CPU Pool (change of case), in the Console, the data for the new names is well historized. 

The old names are still present and the data no longer appears in the Sysload Portal.

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Cause

Cause type:
By design
Root Cause: The Monitor multiple processor pools name is case sensitive

Environment

OS: IBM AIX
OS Version: N/A

Resolution

Follow these steps to purge the old :

1. Stop the Agent for PowerVM (Collector & File Server)
2. Backup the history files (*.IDX & *.DAT).
3. Connect with the same user on the server 
4. Go to the directory‘<sysload_homedir>/tools’.
5. Run the 'sld_purge' command on the history files

 

• Rename SP_Oracle (Old name : SP_Oracle / New name SP_ORACLE)

$ ./sld_purge -hst_file ./../POWERVM-SERVER-001 -by_entity
Sysload history type (longterm / finegrained) [ longterm ] :
Sysload history save filepath (without extension) [ ./../POWERVM-SERVER-001_save ] :
Enter RegEx for entity to purge 'Specific' (A/B1) [ - ] :
Enter RegEx for entity to purge 'SHRPROCPOOL_SP' (B/E1) [ - ] : .*SP_Oracle.*
Total records no: parsed:182120 purged:864 modified:0 not retrieved:0 added:181254 ignored:2

Fix Status: No Fix

Fix Version(s):
N/A

Additional Information

Workaround :
Reinitialize history files