We have a rather large storwize 7000 here, and we need to monitor it. I've found how to do it Nagios (https://www.bityard.org/blog/2013/12/28/nagios_monitoring_ibm_svc_storwize) so it is possible to do it. Alas perl is absolutely not my strong suit, so I can't translate it into something usefull for prtg. I can see that you have been asked this before, but I don't see much help in the replies or in the references in them. I've also found a way to download performance files from the storwize, but I can't get my head around the XML files and what each key means, and I can't find a description of what the keys mean or an xml schema explanation anywhere. Has anybody gotten this set up with PRTG, or did you just give up on it?
Monitoring an IBM StorWize - script/snmp what to do?
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Now it seems to be working as it should.
PREREQUISITES: Create a keypair with puttygen. Place the privatekey in c:\sanmon Create a file with a single n in it, and call it answer.txt and place it in c:\sanmon Copy the public key to the san: scp superuser@SANIP:/tmp/tmpkey (this can't be done with WinSCP, so I copied it from a linux box) Create an administrator user on the san called prtgmon plink SANIP -l superuser "svctask mkuser -name prtgmon -usergrp Administrator -keyfile /tmp/tmpkey" (It will ask if you want to cache the RSA fingerprint, answer N).
Place this script in PRTG\Custom Sensors\EXE
@ECHO OFF
Rem This script will get capacity information from StorWiz
REM V1.02 Kenneth Fribert
REM PREREQUISITES:
REM Needs a folder on C: drive called sanmon, where the user running the script needs read / write / delete access
REM Parameters:
REM 1: ID
REM 2: Name
REM 3: Status
REM 4: Mdisk Count
REM 5: Vdisk Count
REM 6: Capacity *
REM 7: Extent Size
REM 8: Free Capacity *
REM 9: Virtual Capacity
REM 10: Used Capacity
REM 11: Real Capacity
REM 12: Overallocation *
IF %1.==. GOTO Error_Missing_Argument
IF %2.==. GOTO Error_Missing_Argument
IF %3.==. GOTO Error_Missing_Argument
SET IP=%1
SET STORID=%2
SET CHECK=%3
SET FILENAME=%IP:.=-%-%STORID%-%CHECK%
plink %IP% -l prtgmon -ssh -i c:\sanmon\prtgsanmon.ppk -noagent "svcinfo lsmdiskgrp -nohdr -bytes -delim :" 2>NUL 1> c:\sanmon\%FILENAME% < c:\sanmon\answer.txt
for /F "eol=; tokens=1,%CHECK% delims=:" %%i in (c:\sanmon\%FILENAME%) do (
IF "%%i" == "%STORID%" (
ECHO %%j:ok
)
)
EXIT /B 0
:Error_Missing_Argument
ECHO 0:The command takes three arguments prtgsanmon SANIP STORAGEID CHECK
EXIT 2
The curent sensor needs to have a MUTEX set, there is no check for multiple instances, it will however work for multiple checks, as it creates individual temp files. I tried getting rid of the temporary file, by including the plink command in '' in the for sentence, but that didn't work. I would very much like to get rid of the temporary filename.
Last change on May 30, 2017 11:52:34 AM by
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Hi there,
Unfortunately, I can't reach the linked website with the nagios script. But, you can try to monitor the Storage with the following guide: https://kb.paessler.com/en/topic/69772-v7000-ibm-monitoring
Best regards.
Created on May 19, 2017 11:44:10 AM by
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I have not had one of these for a few years, but this is a script i used to have to SSH to the box, run a command and return the value.
If i remember it returned MBps.
CMD = "f:\utils\plink superuser@v7000IP -pw passw0rd ""svcinfo lssystemstats -nohdr -filtervalue stat_name=mdisk_r_mb"""
Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set objExec = objShell.Exec(cmd)
Do
line = objExec.StdOut.ReadLine()
s = s & line & vbcrlf
Loop While Not objExec.Stdout.atEndOfStream
WScript.Echo split(s)(1)
I will leave it with you on how to change this to a per array solution.
Also, let us know if SNMP works, there was no SNMP in version 1 of a v7000 (around 2013)
Last change on May 22, 2017 8:59:11 AM by
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Hi Andrew,
Thank you for the script, maybe someone will be able to try it out. :)
Created on May 22, 2017 9:00:01 AM by
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Hi there,
Andrew, do you have any idea if the storage size is actually offered as a metric by the SAN?
Best regards.
Created on May 24, 2017 9:08:50 AM by
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Hi there,
Do you want to publish it, so you can help the other people? :)
Best regards.
Created on May 29, 2017 1:45:47 PM by
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Now it seems to be working as it should.
PREREQUISITES: Create a keypair with puttygen. Place the privatekey in c:\sanmon Create a file with a single n in it, and call it answer.txt and place it in c:\sanmon Copy the public key to the san: scp superuser@SANIP:/tmp/tmpkey (this can't be done with WinSCP, so I copied it from a linux box) Create an administrator user on the san called prtgmon plink SANIP -l superuser "svctask mkuser -name prtgmon -usergrp Administrator -keyfile /tmp/tmpkey" (It will ask if you want to cache the RSA fingerprint, answer N).
Place this script in PRTG\Custom Sensors\EXE
@ECHO OFF
Rem This script will get capacity information from StorWiz
REM V1.02 Kenneth Fribert
REM PREREQUISITES:
REM Needs a folder on C: drive called sanmon, where the user running the script needs read / write / delete access
REM Parameters:
REM 1: ID
REM 2: Name
REM 3: Status
REM 4: Mdisk Count
REM 5: Vdisk Count
REM 6: Capacity *
REM 7: Extent Size
REM 8: Free Capacity *
REM 9: Virtual Capacity
REM 10: Used Capacity
REM 11: Real Capacity
REM 12: Overallocation *
IF %1.==. GOTO Error_Missing_Argument
IF %2.==. GOTO Error_Missing_Argument
IF %3.==. GOTO Error_Missing_Argument
SET IP=%1
SET STORID=%2
SET CHECK=%3
SET FILENAME=%IP:.=-%-%STORID%-%CHECK%
plink %IP% -l prtgmon -ssh -i c:\sanmon\prtgsanmon.ppk -noagent "svcinfo lsmdiskgrp -nohdr -bytes -delim :" 2>NUL 1> c:\sanmon\%FILENAME% < c:\sanmon\answer.txt
for /F "eol=; tokens=1,%CHECK% delims=:" %%i in (c:\sanmon\%FILENAME%) do (
IF "%%i" == "%STORID%" (
ECHO %%j:ok
)
)
EXIT /B 0
:Error_Missing_Argument
ECHO 0:The command takes three arguments prtgsanmon SANIP STORAGEID CHECK
EXIT 2
The curent sensor needs to have a MUTEX set, there is no check for multiple instances, it will however work for multiple checks, as it creates individual temp files. I tried getting rid of the temporary file, by including the plink command in '' in the for sentence, but that didn't work. I would very much like to get rid of the temporary filename.
Last change on May 30, 2017 11:52:34 AM by
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Hi Kenneth,
Thank you for the work. Hopefully it will help others too. :)
Best regards.
Created on May 30, 2017 11:53:38 AM by
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