Import and Export Data

mst

Hello,

is it possible to export the collected data from a System i and then import it to another system i to display that data?

The reason is, that we want to collect data from one System i that's not in the same network as the server and then use another system i to make it visible?

What files would I need to export/import?

Pavel

Hello,

do you need to use some lpar2rrd instance as a proxy one and pass data further to the target lpar2rrd instance which has no direct connection to the IBM i?

is that about HMC data or IBM i OS agent data?

1. IBM i OS agent:

Basically depends how often you want to sync it.

- If once a week/month or even day, then this could be relatively easily done by some script.

- On-line feeding (proxying) is not implemented, however not impossible

2. HMC data:

this is a bit complicated now, it will be alowed or better easy to implement once we implement&release REST API HMC access (Sep 2018??)

point 1: we could implement it only if this is a customer request.

point 2: no way at the moment

mst

Hello Pavel,

we want to let the IBM i OS Agent run for a while (like a month), then backup the data to tape and bring it to the other location where we install it on a different IBM i partition and display the data on the LPAR2RRD server on that location.

Pavel

ok, than this should be easy.

after 1 month get this data from all IBM i agents from lpar2rrd server instance on customer side

cd /home/lpar2rrd/lpar2rrd

tar cvf ibmi.tar data/*/*/*--AS400--

get ibmi.tar, and extract in on your own lpar2rrd instance.

Then

./load.sh html

Ctrl-F5 in the web browser.

this should work

getting directly data from IBMi partitions is not possible, customer must have installed and running lpar2rrd server.

mst

Ok, thanks a lot. So basically we have to install a lpar2rrd server on customer side. We see what we can do.