VNX Performance Monitoring via Cacti

Question

Good afternoon, I am keen to understand if any VNX users have configured remote performance monitoring via Cacti, using any specific template packages. I am looking to capture as much performance metrics as possible for the purpose of historic reporting, such as: - Interface Utilisation (both ethernet and fibre channel interfaces) - Storage Processor and Data Mover Utilisation (CPU, Memory etc) - File Metrics for NFS and CIFS (such as number of connections etc) Is this something that other members of the community have done? I appreciate there are other packages available that may be able to provide this level of monitoring, however I am keen to use Cacti wherever possible. Thanks in advance.

christopher_ime · Answer

Firstly welcome to the forums and above all thank you for being an EMC customer.

Please consider moving this question as-is (no need to recreate) to the proper forum for maximum visibility. Questions written to the users' own "Discussions" space don't get the same amount of attention and can go unanswered for a long time.

You can do so by selecting "Move" under ACTIONS along the upper-right. Then search for and select: "VNX Support Forum".

plynch-netappli · Answer

Thanks Christopher, my mistake - I have now moved this thread to the appropriate forum.

umichklewis · Answer

Unfortunately, you won't have a great deal of luck. EMC exposes some statistics via SNMP, but not the metrics you're looking for. Most of the metrics you're after are only available via -

- Control Station CLI (server_stats command)

- Unisphere GUI (VNX management software)

- VNX Monitoring and Reporting Software (EMC software product)

- Other Third-Party SMI packages, such SolarWinds

You can configure the VNX control station to deliver SNMP traps for various events, but you won't get many statistics via SNMP.

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