I haven't seen the data yet but I'm willing to bet that it's the same type of performance data that comes out of DFM. I'm running 7.0 and will upgrade to 7.0.1R1 soon. I use a script to pluck CPU, network and volume info out of DFM and put it into a MySQL database. I then use PHP to generate graphs based on that data.
If the format is something like this:
1118612700 2.3
Then it's Epoch time and a value. In this case, it's my CPU utilization. You just need to know what type of values they are (CPU, network, etc.). PHP has built in Epoch time conversion support and it works great with MySQL. Not to mention there's plenty of free charting tools for PHP out there. I only wish DFM had more exportable values. Any chance NetApp would start capturing SNMP values in DFM?
Sorry to get off topic. I agree with John on the notification emails though.
Good Luck,
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-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of John Stoffel Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 4:17 PM To: Charles Bartels Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: automatic "Performance" email
Charles> Since installing ONTAP 7.0.1R1 I've been receiving 1MB Charles> "PERFORMANCE DATA" emails from the filer, along with the weekly
Charles> system notification.
Charles> The email consists of hourly stats and is cryptic at best.
Charles> Is there a setting to stop these emails from being sent to the Charles> "autosupport.to" list? (which is what I assume is Charles> happening.)
If you don't want NetApp to get them, then you'll have to either turn off autosupport entirely, or try changing autosupport.content to 'minimal'.
Or maybe filter them out on the outgoing email gateway, so that they get dropped into the bit bucket when going out. I'm sure you could setup a sendmail filter to process these things before you send them off site.
I'm planning on putting a procmail recipe in place so I don't have to see these stats directly, but to keep them logged for posterity. But I'd love to be able to drop them into MRTG or some other tool so I can examine them. Maybe when I get some time I'll bug NetApp about how to look at this data, and possibly how to manage it better.
Sorry I don't have a real answer here.
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