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NetApp Cloud Insights is a powerful tool that helps you keep an eye on all parts of your IT systems. It provides an in-depth view of computing infrastructure, storage systems, and containerized applications managed through Kubernetes. This all-encompassing visibility allows IT owners to understand how systems are performing and how to optimize them for better efficiency and reliability.

With Cloud Insights, you can track crucial metrics that reflect the health and performance of your systems. These metrics should be well-defined, actionable, informative, and impactful. They should provide valuable and relevant information about the systems being monitored and should be closely tied to the potential issues that could affect your business operations.

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Alert fatigue can be a significant issue in complex IT environments. It occurs when teams are overwhelmed by a flood of alerts, many irrelevant or nonactionable, leading to the potential overlooking of critical alerts. Cloud Insights addresses this by focusing on delivering alerts that truly matter.

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Setting the appropriate thresholds is a vital part of this strategy, contributing to smoother operations and fewer disruptions. This approach keeps your team's attention on critical issues while reducing unnecessary noise and distractions.

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In-Depth Monitoring and Tracking of Changes

Cloud Insights stands out in terms of its ability to track every deployment and configuration change to your IT infrastructure. This tracking allows you to maintain a historical record of changes, aiding in the identification of when a change could have introduced an issue, and ability to revert. This level of traceability can be instrumental in diagnosing problems, minimizing the time spent troubleshooting, and avoiding potential system downtime.

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https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/cloudinsights/concept_kubernetes_network_monitoring_and_map.html#dive-deep 

Conclusion

NetApp Cloud Insights offers a comprehensive solution to monitor and optimize your IT infrastructure. By providing in-depth visibility into your infrastructure, enabling the setting of appropriate alert thresholds, and offering meticulous change tracking, it fosters a more streamlined and efficient IT management process.

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With Cloud Insights, you can ensure that your infrastructure, whether container, compute, storage, or a hybrid, is performing optimally and supporting your business as intended.

Hello people

i was wondering after a customer sent a doubt to me, if AIQUM is able to simulate and measure the impact of CPU/IOPs that can handle one of the HApair in case of failure of the partner.

I would like something exactly or pretty similar to this that exstsed in OCPM (Perfomance Mgr) long time ago where you can assess this behavior.

see this to compare & respond to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42o4BOiajg0&list=PLdXI3bZJEw7mp3jFSg0IJgo3oeDQRY-Gl&index=21

Thanks in advance

I just wanted to say thank you for making the tool available.

Within a few hours of it collecting data, we already knew more about what the storage was doing than before 🙂

A minor note. The init.d script needs a #!/bin/bash on the first line (well at least under RedHat 7.1) otherwise it gets an exec error when the system starts, and doesn't start the pollers.

Looking to see futher into the capability, is there a way to collect snapmirror statistics?

Iain

Hi all,

I have recently install Harvest 1.2.2 but get the following error when trying to poll for most of our 7mode controllers :

[PROD][root@parg3pharv001 netapp-harvest]# ./netapp-worker -poller n02sanp0002a
[2015-12-18 10:46:37] [NORMAL ] WORKER STARTED [Version: 1.2.2] [Conf: netapp-harvest.conf] [Poller: n02sanp0002a]
[2015-12-18 10:46:37] [WARNING] Started in foreground mode; messages to STDERR are redirected to the logfile and are not visible on the console.

[PROD][root@parg3pharv001 log]# tail -f n02sanp0002a_netapp-harvest.log
[2015-12-18 10:48:27] [WARNING] [sysinfo] Update of system-info cache DOT Version failed with reason: Server returned HTTP Error:
[2015-12-18 10:48:27] [WARNING] [main] system-info update failed; will try again in 10 seconds.
[2015-12-18 10:48:37] [WARNING] [sysinfo] Update of system-info cache DOT Version failed with reason: Server returned HTTP Error:
[2015-12-18 10:48:37] [WARNING] [main] system-info update failed; will try again in 10 seconds.

[PROD][root@parg3pharv001 log]# tail -f ntapprdmd1_netapp-harvest.log
[2015-12-18 10:50:00] [WARNING] [sysinfo] Update of system-info cache DOT Version failed with reason: Server returned HTTP Error:
[2015-12-18 10:50:00] [WARNING] [main] system-info update failed; will try again in 10 seconds.
[2015-12-18 10:50:10] [WARNING] [sysinfo] Update of system-info cache DOT Version failed with reason: Server returned HTTP Error:
[2015-12-18 10:50:10] [WARNING] [main] system-info update failed; will try again in 10 seconds.

....

I can't seem to find supporting information for this error? Any information would be great

Thanks

Jef

Hi,

I am trying to get a cluster wide view of latency, IOPS and throughput from Harvest. I know I can export in json format but converting it does seem to work very well. Can I export to csv?

Dear Community Experts,

We are using oncommand unified manager 9.5 version and there is no inbuilt headroom dashboard or reports on OCUM.

We see there is an option in OCI about the headroom report. We tried to build the custom report using existing MYSQL database tables and need some insights about the reference DB tables associated with getting the desired headroom report.

Is there any product documentation or info about the mappings of existing dashboards with backend DB tables. We are actually trying to leverage the inhouse tool for creating custom reports for which we need to understand the existing tables and give information to other teams about the required tables to parse to get the desired result. We don't have direct access to the report tools(like Tableau, IBM Cognos) to play with the OCUM Mysql DB data.

I am actually trying in the Simulator environment to check the OCUM performance DB tables and trying to write the custom queries. I have gone through general TR documents related to OCUM DB and reporting.

Any inputs are highly appreciated.

Regards,

Krishgudd

First of all... Awesome work with Netapp-Harvest \ Graphite \ Grafana!  I am really enjoying this tool.

We recently had an incident where our 7-mode FAS6210 was getting heavy read latency.  Ultimately we ended up executing a cluster takeover\giveback to get us out of the situation.  Later we started looking at the data to see if we could determine which metrics could have been an indicator of the issue.  We came across the below metric that lined up perfectly with the timing of our issue.  We tried to get some additional information on what this metric was actually gathering by opening a case with Netapp.  At first the support engineer stated that there was no such metic called "WAFL Write Pending".  We later figured out the acutal metic was cp_phase_times\P2_FLUSH, just being aliased as "WAFL Write Pending".

The Netapp API documentation states P2_FLUSH is time taken for CP phase2 flush stage in msecs per vol.  

It appears that some math and aliasing is being executed on this metric based on how I see the metric configured in Grafana (See screen shot below).

I am curious of the thought process of converting the raw data from msesc to a percentage for display in Grafana? 

We would like to understand the root cause of why this metric spiked.  Are there other metrics of interest to look at when "WAFL Write Pending" spikes?

Hi all

Can i forward syslog messages from OCUM or OCPM to a remote syslog server ?

Thanks

I am looking for Qtree counters in Harvest/Grafana.

In the template Qtrees are mentioned in the "workload" section. It is enabled by default but I can't find any corresponding counters in created in graphite.

Hi, we have some 8.3.x cDOT clusters added in OCUM, all working fine.

But clusters with version 9 (GA) can't be added.

We get this error:

Cluster add failed. Failed to fetch the HTTPS certificate from *ontap9system*. Enter a valid Hostname or Port.

Certificates are not expired, credentials work fine.

Any ideas?

Quick update: It works with HTTP (Port 80) but of course we have security concerns so we need to use HTTPS like on the others.

Thanks!

We are happy to announce that Harvest 1.4.1 is released!

You can download the new release from ToolChest. Main updates are:

- Harvest will accept older templates, no need to rename them manually

- Harvest will aggregate FlexGroup volume counters

- We also added a new dashboard in Grafana for FlexGroup counters.

As we continue to develop Harvest, your feedback is much appreciated. If you use Harvest, please share with us:

- What issues do you face when installing Harvest?

- Any bugs you noticed in Harvest? What makes you happy or unhappy when using Harvest?

And last but not least: what new features do you think we should add to the next release of Harvest? We ask for your feedback because we want to work on features that many of you need.

I look forward to your feedback!

Cheers,

- Vachagan

Hi Guy's,

Am looking for difference between OPM(OCUM7.1P1) and Grafana. we have plan to suggest Grafana in our environment and there was questions to justify when OPM is available, why looking for grafana. with my experience, i can say that Grafana gives more granula data which gives more detailed at every layer. But looking for some additional details so as to convince and get in our environment.

we have 7mode and Cdot filers with versions starting from 8.2.3 to 9.1.

We have OCUM 7.1 with integrated (linked with cert) OCPM, by policy it is not allowed to use the default admin role for the service account which will gather the Filers.

So we need to create a seperate role with the required permissions and add the user to this role.

Does anyone know if there is a howto ?? (i found one for DFM 7-Mode but not for OCUM cDOT) or can advise howto do this ?

regards imho

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_privilege