Powershell Scripts for EMC Performance Statistics block/NAS (updated)

Clint (and Matt), great work!

As an added tip, for folks new to the scripts, make sure you have PowerCli installed if you want to run the correlation information (it's sort of stated in the comment above, but I thought I'd write it down anyway), otherwise the script will cause a "fail" to show up when connecting to the vCenter.

Alls scripts work fine for me, except the one that configures the relationship between LUN and VMware datastore. If I don't actually post it, the output shows up. When I try to post it, I get the following:

Exception calling "send" with "1" argument(s): "The system cannot locate the resource specified.

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At C:\scripts\ps_get_unified_stats\ps_vcops_httpost.ps1:177 char:96

+         if(!$post) { $arrParameters } else { if($showpost){ $arrParameters };$http_request.send <<<< ($tmpSend); }

    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ComMethodTargetInvocation

I'm guessing that there might be a problem in either a concat, or some of the special characters in the strings being posted, but that's just an guess. Any suggestions?

User error. As always...

Sorry about keeping you up, but again thanks for your help in troubleshooting. Working like a charm now!

So what was the resolution to the "The system cannot locate the resource specified." error? Apparently I am making the same user error. Thanks.

The destination vCOps server specified with -vcopsip was not correct, or possibly the httpost adapter was not running.

Clinton,

Do you know if ps_navi_correlate_datastore_uuid.ps1 works with vSphere 5 and PPVE?  When I was troubleshooting it looks like "[array]$arrMILuns = $configStorageSystem.StorageDeviceInfo.MultipathInfo.Lun" is an empty array.

Thanks,

Joe

Matt,

I would be interested to see what it is returning since even looking at the MOB I don't have a result.

Also see this text in vSphere SDK reference.

http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.wssdk.apiref.doc_50/vim.host.MultipathInfo.html

Storage devices using the native multipathing storage plugin will have an entry in this data object. Storage devices provided by a different storage plugin will not appear in the inventory represented by this data object.

It works with my Lab with vSphere 5 and PP/VE.

EMC VNXe Support.

In your original post on setting this up you attached a ppt that stated that the VNXe was supported.

https://community.emc.com/thread/126637

I have been trying to get my VNXe to send metrics to my vCOps instance for 2 or 3 days now with no luck. From reading the scripts I only see the use of the navisphere cli, unless I missed something. What I understand about the VNXe system is that it does not support navi cli. Is there a tweak that I need to make to the powershell command to get this to work for me?

Help.

Thanks in advance.

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Has anyone tried using this script with the VNXe?

Anyone?

One more tip that I noticed yesterday during setup of the scripts. If you are trying to get this to run outside of the US and you get a date/time error, make sure you time zones are set up correctly, and if you are still getting the error, make sure that you are using the US-English date/time format on the host you are using to post the data from.

Clinton,

are these scripts the basis for the EMC VNX Connector which will provide VNX storage metrics within VMware vCenter Operations?

John

John,

Short answer here, is no.  These scripts provide some great functionality in the short term, but the VNX connector on release will be a fully supported vCOps plugin rewritten to be native to vCOps.  These scripts leverage vCOps open interface and a dedicated collection platform to get stats into vCOps.

I get this error below when I run this command, ".\get_unified_block_perf.ps1 -username sysadmin -password sysadmin -scope 0 -spaip spaip -spbip spbip -vcopsip vcopsip -protocol https -vcopsuser xxx -vcopspass xxx  -devicename "CX4-1" -resourcedescription "EMC CX" -showluns -showdisks -showrgs -showpooltiers  -showpooltierrgs -showpools -showarraysummary -post -timeout 120".

ERROR:

C:\scripts\emc\ps_vcops_httpost.ps1 : Cannot bind argument to parameter 'InputObject' because it is null.

At C:\scripts\emc\get_unified_block_perf.ps1:647 char:38

+             $finalOut | .\ps_vcops_httpost.ps1 <<<<  -devicetype "ps-emc-unified-block"  -vcopsuser $vcopsuser -vcops

pass "$vcopspass" -protocol $protocol -vcopsip $vcopsip -devicename $devicename -resourcedescription $resourcedescripti

on -identifiers $identifiers -post }

    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidData: (:) [ps_vcops_httpost.ps1], ParameterBindingValidationException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterArgumentValidati"color: #494848; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 12px; background-color: #fefefe;">

Doesn't look like you replaced 'spaip' and 'sbpip' with the IP addresses of your SPs....

Here is the command I'm running when I get the error.  I have the IP's listed.

.\get_unified_block_perf.ps1 -username XXXXX -password XXXXX -scope 0 -spaip 10.6.4.10 -spbip 10.6.4.11 -vcopsip 10.6.2.226 -protocol https -vcopsuser XXXXX -vcopspass XXXXX  -devicename "ADCSAN401" -resourcedescription "ADC EMC CX4" -showluns -showdisks -showrgs -showpooltiers  -showpooltierrgs -showpools -showarraysummary -post -timeout 180