Pre-Installation Setup for IBM VIO > Adding Servers for the IBM VIO Data Collector Policy
  
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Adding Servers for the IBM VIO Data Collector Policy
IBM VIO Data Collection requires collection from servers in the following order:
1. VIO Servers (IBM Virtual I/O Servers)
2. LPAR Clients (IBM Logical Partitioning Clients) Managed by VIO Servers
3. HMC (IBM Hardware Management Console)
As an Administrator, you may not have a complete list of the server combinations in your enterprise. Therefore, APTARE recommends that you enable HBA and Multipath Probes for the servers, monitor error messages, and then disable probes, as needed.
VIO Servers (IBM Virtual I/O Servers)
To configure collection for IBM VIO Servers:
1. On the VIO Servers, create a normal AIX user instead of a padmin user.
2. Access the Host Inventory window.
Admin > Data Collection > Host Inventory
3. In the Host Inventory window, either use Discover Hosts to collect the initial data for the VIO Servers or search for the VIO Servers.
4. Configure capacity probes for each of the VIO Servers according to the following guidelines:
Capacity: enable.
HBA Probe: enable, since the VIO Servers are connected directly to the SAN.
Volume Manager: enable.
Multipathing:
If the VIO Servers have any third-party multipathing software such as EMC PowerPath or Hitachi HDLM Multipathing, the Multipath Probe should be enabled.
If the VIO Servers are using native AIX multipathing, the Multipath Probe should be disabled.
LPAR Clients (IBM Logical Partitioning Clients) Managed by VIO Servers
To configure collection for IBM LPAR Clients, take the following steps to enable probes:
1. Access the Host Inventory window.
Admin > Data Collection > Host Inventory
2. In the Host Inventory window, either use Discover Hosts to collect the initial data for the LPAR Clients or search for the LPAR Clients.
3. Configure capacity probes for each of the LPAR Clients according to the following guidelines:
Capacity: enable.
HBA Probe:
If the disks are given to LPAR Clients using VSCSI, the HBA Probe should be disabled since the LPAR Clients are not connected directly to the SAN.
If the disks are given to LPAR Clients using NPIV, the HBA Probe should be enabled.
Volume Manager: enable.
Multipathing:
If the LPAR Clients have any third-party multipathing software such as EMC PowerPath or Hitachi HDLM Multipathing, the Multipath Probe should be enabled.
If the LPAR Clients are using native AIX multipathing, the Multipath Probe should be disabled.
HMC (IBM Hardware Management Console)
To configure data collection from the HMC (the LPAR management server), see Adding an IBM VIO Data Collector Policy.