For communication between a SVC system and BVQ, a user account with at least user group 'Monitor' is required on each SVC system.

svctask mkuser -name bvq -usergrp Monitor -password P@ssw0rd<my_secure_password>

Please check Check if an NTP server is configured: its it is mandatory to use an NTP server  to synchronize the time of all systems (SVC Nodes, Windows Systems and BVQ Server):

svcinfo lssystem | grep 'ntp_IP_address'

Set your NTP Server: Synchronize your SVC cluster with a specific NTP server:

svctask chcluster -ntpip <IP address of NTP Server>

Adjust SVC cluster time zone: Set the time zone of your SVC cluster with:

svctask settimezone -timezone 360

Show SVC clock settings: Check the current time setting on your SVC:

svqueryclock

The SVC performance statistics are generated regularly (in intervals) by the SVC and picked up by the BVQ SVC Scanner. BVQ supports all intervals possible in the SVC (1min to 60min). We recommend to set the time interval to 1 minute.

Check statistics status and frequency: Use this command to see if and how often your system collects statistics:

svcinfo lssystem | while read key value; do [[ "$key" =~ ^(statistics_status|statistics_frequency)$ ]]&& echo "$key $value"; done

Enable Change statistics collection : Activate collection of system statistics:

statistics_status on

Set statistics collection frequency: Define how frequently frequent the system collects statistics:

startstats -interval 1

Start statistics collection: Begin collecting system statistics at your defined frequency:

svctask startstats -interval 1

Clear I/O statistics dumps: Clean old I/O statistics data from all nodes in the SVC with this command:

svcinfo lsnode -nohdr | while read id rest ; do svctask cleardumps -prefix /dumps/iostats $id ; done

<interval_in_minutes>