Wondering what Open Source apps others have built from source and use on their AIX machines.  I have versions of top and htop and lsof running for monitoring.  I built nano from source so I could run a later version than the one that comes with IBM toolbox.  I also built a version of putty on AIX.  Wrote my own versions of free and nproc and use them for monitoring as well.  Would be curious about what Free Libre Open Source Software others have ported or are working with on AIX.  Which FLOSS monitoring tools do you find most useful?

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Laura Michaels
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#AIXOpenSource

Hi Laura,

I think you will find most AIX techies will for monitoring be using nmon as it is built in to AIX. I am biased as I developed nmon - the "n" is for Nigel.

There is nmon for Linux which is open source - so this is going the other way: AIX -> Open source.

nmon can save the stats to files for analysis with nmonchart graphs, other CSV graphing tools, nmon analyser or loading in to Timeseries database (like InfluxDB).

As AIX is UNIX, 99.9% of system admin and developer people will being vi, not nano.

Most people will, I think, use putty on their workstation to a server. 

But from the server most would use ssh to get a remote terminal or X Windows via vncserver/vncclient.

Hope this helps,

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Nigel Griffiths - IBM retired
London, UK
@mr_nmon
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We do use nmon and some of the infrastructure personnel where I work find it invaluable.  You did a wonderful job creating it. 

I personally also like to have Open Source tools and utilities available because I can go in and modify the code myself as needed.  We've been doing some shell scripts on AIX and I'm finding plink and psftp from putty very useful for that.  Plus, putty works on several platforms so it's easy to port or move the scripts to another operating system and have them still run.

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Laura Michaels
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Original Message:
Sent: Fri February 14, 2025 07:15 AM
From: Nigel Griffiths
Subject: Open Source for AIX

Hi Laura,

I think you will find most AIX techies will for monitoring be using nmon as it is built in to AIX. I am biased as I developed nmon - the "n" is for Nigel.

There is nmon for Linux which is open source - so this is going the other way: AIX -> Open source.

nmon can save the stats to files for analysis with nmonchart graphs, other CSV graphing tools, nmon analyser or loading in to Timeseries database (like InfluxDB).

As AIX is UNIX, 99.9% of system admin and developer people will being vi, not nano.

Most people will, I think, use putty on their workstation to a server. 

But from the server most would use ssh to get a remote terminal or X Windows via vncserver/vncclient.

Hope this helps,

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Nigel Griffiths - IBM retired
London, UK
@mr_nmon
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