SYMM HEAT REPORT

[yaribhas]

What is the best way to get a snapshot of how the symmetrix is performing?

Can I have EMC run a symmerge for us. We have ECC 5.2 but we hardly ever use it. We currently do not have WLA data to work with.

I wish to see what the hot spots are on all our symmetrix's.

[dynamox · Accepted solution]

if you are licensed for ECC and performance manager, you can install Symmetrix Performance Analyzer (SPA) and gather statistics about your frames. Another option is to setup storstpd daemon and collect stats that way. Give it to your TC and he can put it into symmerge and give you nice heat maps. New SPA can generate heat maps as well.

[yaribhas]

I heard some good things about SPA. Is SPA available on powerlink?

We have license for ECC and performance manager, what license keys should we use?

Are there no special license keys for SPA?

[yaribhas]

how to setup storstpd daemon? Is it a symcli command?

[Boom1]

you need .lic file for SPA license.

you also need SPA base license.

stordaemon start storstpd

stordaemon setoption storstpd -name option_name =value

[dynamox]

yes, you will need to ask your EMC account manager/TC to get you a key, it's capacity based key so you will need to provide information how much storage is currently in your array. You can download SPA from powerlik  (SMC and SPA products have been combined into one as of version 7.2).

storstpd is a service that you can select to install during Solution Enabler installation. Take a look at SE installation guide and it explains how to configure it, start/stop collections.

[sauravrohilla]

SPA 2.1 requires 8 GB Free RAM and you would need to request for ELM (electronic licenses) from your sales team.

regards,

Saurabh

[yaribhas]

Great I have the daemon running but I am not able to find where the TTP files are stored.

I checked the log and it seems to be running.

When the doc states TTP files that is the extension correct?

[dynamox]

default location on Windows : C:\Program Files\EMC\SYMAPI\stp\ttp\<<arrayserialnumber>

[yaribhas]

Ok. I got the daemon running using

stordaemon action storstpd -cmd start

It is still not collecting any data... I went into the logs and it says "Start TTP Request ignored. TTP is currently disabled"

Here is the "

stordaemon show storstpd" output

Daemon State                                    : Running

Daemon Start Time                               : Fri Feb 25 13:22:39 2011

Version                                         : V7.2-1108 (0.0)

Auto-Restart by Watchdog                        : Enabled

Total Number of Connections                     : 5

Number of Active Connections                    : 0

Total Number of Requests                        : 0

  Daemon Runtime Info

  ---------------------------------

Service Processor                               : No

Number of Symmetrix Managers                    :     2

Number of Symmetrix Collectors                  :     2

Number of SMC Packagers                         :     2

Number of SPA Packagers                         :     2

Number of SPA Senders                           :     1

Number of TTP Packagers                         :     0

Number of RTC Packagers                         :     2

Number of Retention Managers                    :     0

  Daemon Options

  ---------------------------------

dmn_run_spa                                     : Enabled

dmn_run_smc                                     : Enabled

dmn_run_ttp                                     : Disabled

dmn_run_ttp_on_sp                               : Enabled

dmn_run_rtc                                     : Enabled

dmn_rtc_data_encode                             : Disabled

dmn_root_location                               : C:\Program Files\EMC\SYMAPI\s

tp

dmn_symmids                                     :

dmn_max_arrays                                  : 6

dmn_remote_mode                                 : Disabled

dmn_remote_address                              :

dmn_remote_port                                 : 2707

daemon_state                                    : running

  SMC Collection Options

  ---------------------------------

smc_collect_interval                            :   5 minutes

  TTP Collection Options

  ---------------------------------

ttp_retention_days                              :  30

ttp_disk_space_threshold                        :  80 %

ttp_collection_interval                         :  15 minutes

ttp_collect_iterations                          :   0

ttp_archive_time                                : 00:00

ttp_archive_interval                            :   4 hours

ttp_sys_metrics                                 : Enabled

ttp_dev_metrics                                 : Enabled

ttp_dir_metrics                                 : Enabled

ttp_disk_metrics                                : Enabled

ttp_port_metrics                                : Enabled

ttp_rdfa_metrics                                : Enabled

ttp_ors_metrics                                 : Enabled

ttp_dgdev_metrics                               : Disabled

ttp_sgdev_metrics                               : Disabled

ttp_cpt_metrics                                 : Enabled

ttp_cpdev_metrics                               : Disabled

ttp_rdfsys_metrics                              : Enabled

ttp_rdfdir_metrics                              : Enabled

ttp_rdflnk_metrics                              : Disabled

ttp_rdfdev_metrics                              : Enabled

ttp_rdfgrp_metrics                              : Enabled

ttp_se_tcp_metrics                              : Disabled

ttp_se_nw_metrics                               : Disabled

ttp_se_nwi_metrics                              : Disabled

ttp_re_sg_metrics                               : Disabled

ttp_re_nwc_metrics                              : Disabled

ttp_tp_dev_metrics                              : Enabled

ttp_tp_metrics                                  : Enabled

  RTC Collection Options

  ---------------------------------

rtc_collect_interval                            :   2 seconds

Not sure why is number of TTP Packagers is 0.. but no data is being collected.

Any ideas?