I use DFM and MRTG to monitor several of filers. I've ran into issues with CPU stats for multi-processor systems. DFM and MRTG will report the "any value" versus the average value. I've had several discussions with Netapp tech support on this topic and there was never a clear direction on with metric to key off of. Tech support informed me that I should be looking at the CPU utilization with sysstat -m and key off of the AVG value.

rsh filer sysstat -m 1

ANY AVG CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 69% 25% 3% 50% 0% 44% 77% 23% 2% 48% 1% 43% 100% 30% 1% 46% 0% 49% 100% 31% 2% 70% 1% 81% 100% 33% 2% 67% 0% 62% 100% 30% 1% 62% 0% 55% 99% 30% 1% 61% 0% 56% 93% 29% 2% 60% 0% 54% 41% 13% 2% 28% 0% 22% 49% 16% 2% 34% 0% 28% 50% 16% 2% 34% 0% 28% 43% 14% 2% 30% 0% 26% 51% 17% 2% 34% 0% 32%

My metrics using DFM and MRTG captures the "any" value. According to Netapp it is not the metric that should be captured. Is anyone else having these challenges and is their a fix in DFM to collect the correct metric on multi-proc systems?

Thanks

-Mark