Getting an hourly snapshot of per protocol latency of each volume and its IOPS for historical trending is priceless.
Nick Bernstein nick@nicholasbernstein.com wrote:
I was mainly looking for things that weren't just the obvious capacity planning / performance stuff, but this has been a good list - thanks everyone. I took people's responses and dumped them into a wiki, if people are interested in referring back to this later on. Feel free to add/edit.
http://nicholasbernstein.com/netapp/wiki/doku.php?id=monitoring
Cheers! Nick
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:59 AM, Collins, Brian brianc@netapp.com wrote:
Funny, nobody has mentioned volume capacity..... Just sayin'
On 9/30/10 11:38 AM, "Nicholas Bernstein" nick@nicholasbernstein.com wrote:
I had an interesting question posed by a student yesterday - "aside from interfaces being up, and volumes being online, what do you typically monitor?" Some of my initial thoughts were:
- inodes being available
- ifstat on multimode vifs to make sure interfaces are being used
- io counts on luns/qtrees/vols/
- client side nfsstat or the equivalent for that protocol from the
client side
Anyway, I was trying to think of some of the "non-standard" things to monitor, and thought I'd put it out to the list and see what other people are typically doing.
Cheers, Nick
-- Brian M Collins Virtualization Solutions Architect NetApp, Inc. +1 919.476.5316 Direct +1 919.522.3348 Mobile brianc@netapp.com
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