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Data Enrichment and Chargeback Reports
Is there a resource that will provide a detailed description of how data enrichment works and setting up and testing some schenarios? I would like to get this setup and start testing chargeback reporting. So far I have found very little on the EMC site and I have something working, but do not know how the whole process works. Thanks.
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June 2nd, 2014 10:00
In the 3.5 release of ViPR SRM, due out later this month, we have an improved grouping interface that is much simpler to use. This interface eliminates the need to use the data enrichment interface in many cases. We have smart group matching as well as static group assignment all configurable from a simple GUI.
Look for the release notification in the next few weeks.
Matt Mendonza
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Here is an excerpt from our SRM Implementation and Management course. If you step through the steps, I think you will get the idea of how to do data enrichment, There is also a videoILT available trhough EMC Education Services that includes an entire module on Data Enrichment. The course is MR-1CN-SRMIMP Storage Resource Management (SRM) Suite Implementation and Maintenance.
Hope this helps:
Step
Action
1
Login to Centralized-Management.
Click on Data Enrichment in the tree panel of Centralized Management.
2
Click the Register a new module button.
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In the Register a new module window:
Servers: Select your Linux server (This is our collector host)
Categories: Select Collecting
Modules: Scroll through the list and check the box for Collector-Manager :: vmware-vcenter :: DataEnrichment.
4
Click Register.
5
Data Enrichment should now show the Collector-Manager :: vmware-vcenter :: DataEnrichment module on your Linux Server as running.
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Click on the Collector-Manager :: vmware-vcenter :: DataEnrichment module on your Linux Server.
The panel on the right will show the current Data Enrichment configuration for this module. You should see “global-enrichment”
End of Lab - Part 1
Step
Action
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In this part we will create New Tagging to give every device a Business Unit and a Customer Name. To achieve this; a CSV file is provided for you. Please locate the file on the share provided to you on your Windows Server.
The name of the file is VDC_VM-tag.csv. The contents of the file are comma separated. The first column has the Device name as a regular expression, the second column has the Business Unit name and the third column has the Customer name. The contents of the file are shown below.
"Win-SRM[1-6]","BU-1A","CustomerA"
"Linux-SRM[1-6]","BU-2B","CustomerA"
"Win-SRM[7-9]","BU-3C","CustomerB"
"Linux-SRM[7-9]","BU-4D","CustomerB"
"Win-SRM1[0-2]","BU-3C","CustomerB"
"Linux-SRM1[0-2]","BU-4D","CustomerB"
".*-SRM-Inst","BU-ZZ","CustomerC"
"SRM-VMRHEL1","BU-11","CustomerA"
"SRM-VMRHEL2","BU-22","CustomerB"
"SRM-VMRHEL3","BU-33","CustomerC"
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Login to Centralized-Management.
Click on Data Enrichment in the tree panel. Then click on the Data Enrichment module (Collector-Manager :: vmware-vcenter :: DataEnrichment) you had registered in the previous part.
You should see “global-enrichment”. In this lab we will create a New Tagging.
2
Click on New tagging.
3
In the new-tagging* section:
Name: Type in VDC_VM-tag
Click on Add new key – to launch Create a new key window
Name Column: Type in device
after: first
Default value: Leave the box empty
Type: Set to Regex
Delete after use: Leave the box unchecked
Click Save to save the new key
Click on Add a new property - to launch Create a new property window
Name Column: Type in customer
after: first
Default value: Leave the box empty
Click Save to save the new property
Click on Add a new property - to launch Create a new property window
Name Column: Type in bunit
after: first
Default value: Leave the box empty
Click Save to save the new property
Your screen should look as follows:
Make sure the columns show up as device, bunit and then customer.
Click the Save button near the bottom of the page. Then click on Update in the Save Data Enrichment window.
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The Data Enrichment module should now list two tags: VDC_VM-tag in addition to global-enrichment.
Click on the triangle ( ) to the left of VDC_VM-tag.
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In the VDC_VM-tag section:
Click on Import CSV.
In the Import CSV Window click on the Choose File button and select the csv file (VDC_VM-tag.csv) that you had located earlier.
Then click Ok in the Import CSV window to import the contents of the CSV file. Click on Continue once the file is successfully imported.
The screen should look as follows:
Click the Save button near the bottom of the page. Then click on Update in the Save Data Enrichment window.
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Restart the VMware collector:
Under Physical Overview, click on your Linux host.
Under the Services tab, click on the Collector-Manager which has the instance name vmware-vcenter. A new tab called Collector-Manager - vmware-vcenter will open.
Click the Restart button in the Collector-Manager - vmware-vcenter tab to restart the service.
Note: restarting VMware collector at this point is only for the purpose of forcing a full re-discovery of the VDC right now and in order to force a database property refresh. We don’t want to wait for the next scheduled scan to be performed (once per hour, controlled by the collector). It has nothing to do with applying the Data-Enrichment rules (which are effective at the moment you save).
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Allow 2-3 polling cycles to run (5min/polling cycle) which amounts to 10-15 minutes.
Click on your Windows server under Physical Overview.
Then click on the Tasks tab your Windows server.
Click on the checkbox for the definition file “property-store\Default\import-properties.task”. At the bottom of the table click on the Run Now button.
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Login to the SRM APG Web Application from a new browser tab.
URL- http:// :58080/APG
Quick check:
From the Report panel, open Advanced Search (triangle to the right of the Search text box).
Next to the Filter, click on the word Everything. The Filter Wizard contextual menu opens.
Select Refine > using a wizard a new pop-up opens.
In the textbox, type customer (note: case-sensitive). Select customer.
The Wizard should then prompt you to choose an item from list. Instead, click on the word is and from drop-down list, choose is present. Click Ok. This will bring you back to Advance Search panel.
Place the cursor IN FRONT OF the device word in the Expansion textbox. Type customer bunit (without quotes and with a space between). The final Expansion expression should read: customer bunit device.
Click Apply.
Test the report and confirm expected devices are under right group of customer/bunit – Example below.
Guy Winfrey
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October 6th, 2015 12:00
Thank you very much Guy_Winfrey for your detailed step , I have two concerns here
1 . I am unable to find collector-manager :: VMware -vcenter :: dataenrichment module
2 . Does this work for tagging Physical hosts too ? we are using EMC host interface for discovering physical hosts in this scenario which module I need to use in this case because I do not see any EMC host interface module under the collector for registering it .
Please advise and thank you in advance !!