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