Monitoring EMC CLARiiON Networked Storage System using OpStor

EMC Switches Monitoring

• CX Series like CX300, CX500, CX700 & CX800
• FC Series like FC4700
• AX Series

• Inventory information of physical components ,
• Storage Processor (SP)
• SP Ports
• Disk Drives
  
• Logical configuration details
  
• LUNs
• RaidGroups
• LUN Host Mapping
• Monitoring
• SP status
  
• SP Port status
• Free space of Disk Drives / Raid Groups /LUNs
  
• Reports:
  
• Performance
  • Storage Processors
    • Utilization, Total Bandwidth, Total throughput, Read Bandwidth, Read Size, Read throughput, Write Bandwidth, Write Size, Write throughput, Dirty Pages, Flush Ratio, Mbs Flushed, Forced Flushes, Idle Flush On, High Water Flush On, Low water Flush On, Write Cache Flushes
  • Disk Drives
    • Utilization, Total Bandwidth, Total throughput, Read Bandwidth, Read Size, Read throughput, Write Bandwidth, Write Size, Write throughput, Service Time
  • LUNs
    • Utilization, Total Bandwidth, Total throughput, Read Bandwidth, Read Size, Read throughput, Write Bandwidth, Write Size, Write throughput, Read Cache Hits, Read Cache Misses, Write Cache Hits, Write Cache Missses, Disk Crossing
• Availability reports for SP & SP ports
  
• SNMP trap based alarms

• OpStor uses command line utility (NaviCLI.exe) available as part of NaviSphere suite of EMC CLARiiON installation
• Ensure that NaviCLI is installed in the server in which OpStor is installed
  • Include the directory containing NaviCLI.exe in the PATH environment variable. (This is normally C:\Program Files\EMC\Navisphere CLI\ )
• Ensure that OpStor is restarted (shutdown & started) after including NaviCLI in the path
• For Performance monitoring, please ensure that setStats flag is enabled. You can enable the same using NaviCLI command
  • NaviCLI -h <array-ip> setstats -on
    

• Add the EMC Clariion storage array through the 'Admin tab' --> 'Manage Storage Devices' link in OpStor Webclient
  • Provide the IP Addess of the EMC CLARiiON Array in the "IP Address" text field
  • Choose 'None' option
  • Click "Add Device'. This might take upto 30 seconds for completion
• Repeat the above proceedure to add the second array IP in case of dual Storage Processors

OpStor Remote Proxy Option:
Note :- This is required only if NaviCLI is not installed in the server running OpStor.

• Go to the server where NaviCli is available
• Download the opstorproxy from here
• Open a new command console and include the directory containing NaviCLI.exe in the PATH environment variable. (This is normally C:\Program Files\EMC\Navisphere CLI\ )
• Run the opstorproxy.exe in that console

Now open the OpStor Webclient and add the array IP as follows,

• Navigate to 'Admin tab' --> 'Manage Storage Devices' link in OpStor Webclient
  • Provide the IP Address of the EMC CLARiiON Array in the "IP Address" text field
  • Select the "Proxy" radio button
  • Provide the IP of the server in which the opstorproxy is running in the "Proxy IP" field
  • Click "Add Device'. This might take upto 30 seconds for completion
• Repeat the above proceedure to add the second array IP in case of dual Storage Processors