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?

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,

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?