Gene, Be aware that most monitoring is not quite suited for virtual machines. They don't (or can't) match linux values with the host numbers.
You might want to look at Performance Toolkit or Tivoli Omegamon. Obviously most monitoring from general linux can also monitor linux on z. Such as nagios or packages that use the SNMP interface. Though in general I don't like the others. They might use a lot of system resources to monitor a guest and, as mentioned, most are not aware of virtual machines. For reporting purposes you might want to look at the mon_statd from the s390-tools package. This writes (a lot) of data into the CP MONITOR. I use this to gather data from the linux guests. And I have written a crude monitoring based on these numbers. Regards, Berry. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Walters, Gene P Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 12:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: VM Monitor We are in search of a good VM/Linux Monitor. Until recently, we had Velocity and were quite happy with it. Barton's group decided our shop was too small and not worth the hoops that our purchasing division wanted them to jump through, so now we need a new one. Any ideas? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
