Isilon integration with third party tool

Hello deepsan,

You can do this with Isilon InsightIQ. Please take a moment to look at the documentation for the product here:

InsightIQ - Isilon Info Hub

As of this quarter, InsightIQ is a free license you can obtain from your EMC Account Representative to test out with your clusters. Please let me know if there is anything else I can do for you.

Splunk can provide quite a bit of performance monitoring and resource consumption statistics.

Northern Park's Storage Suite can also provide some of the same metrics, and some (limited) administration capability.

And of course, you can build your own apps, using the REST API native to Isilon.  Depending on the statistics you need, it's not too difficult to build dashboards with Ruby and Python scripts.

Let us know if that helps!

Karl

Thank you Karl . Is there a demo version available for using splunk or northern park's suite?Looks like splunk needs a licence to start with . please let me know if there is a doc to show the steps to integrate these tools with isilon for reporting. appreciate your help.

thanks!

The other option is to use Graphite to receive the data.  You can write your own scripts that feed Graphite - a quick Google search for "isilon graphite" will give you some examples.  The very first hit returned - Send Isilon stats to Graphite (Carbon) · GitHub  - is actually pretty good.  It was written by Jason Davis at ARM.

I use a combination of InsightIQ, a modified version of Jason's script, and my own scripts.

If you have a RHEL 7 system, installing Graphite is supposed to be relatively easy (we're still on an older version here so it was a bit more work to get it going).

Some things just can't be reported on in InsightIQ - eg, disk space utilization if you consider a "disk" to be a directory quota, or graphing nfs counters and errors.

Demo versions of both products are available if you reach out to the respective companies.  Similarly, documentation is behind their support pages and forums.

Let us know if that helps!

Internally we have an initiative to make our performance metrics more consumable to all parties, which includes 3rd party monitoring tools.  But before that project is complete, in the meantime, the OneFS API is your best bet for any 3rd party integration.

Shameless plug -- a tutorial on how to get started with OneFS API:

OneFS API Tutorial & InsightIQ Performance Metrics

Arguably if one made the right API calls periodically, and send it to say New Relic or Graphite or Splunk, you could graph it out.  Hope this helps.