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Monitoring

benpielaml — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:10:08 GMT

What are people using out there for monitoring their NetApp controllers? Is it a combination of Ops Manager and SNMP? What traps do you typically monitor? Are you creating your own custom traps?

Thanks,

Ben Piela

Re: Monitoring

stevedegroat — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:55:39 GMT

Using DFM/Ops Mgr as the primary method for monitoring and problem notification. I do have a modified SNMP script for collection in Big Brother (not officially supported by NetApp). We will soon be moving to Nagios, which is supposed to have better interpretation of NetApp mibs. For example we had to turn off Big Bro's monitoring of environmental data points as it continued to report temperature issues where there were none.

Re: Monitoring

michaelhudak — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:32:58 GMT

Hello Ben,

I have started a posting in my Linkedin to give you different ideas, you can follow the thread to the right http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&discussionID=27817909&gid=116876&commentID=21528437&trk=view_disc

Feel free to conect with me as well my email for Linkedin is mhudak@championsg.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhudak36

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A note from my engineer

michaelhudak — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:39:50 GMT

Some folks prefer ApplianceWatch PRO w/ Microsoft System Center while others choose HP OpenView, ManageEngine OpStor, LogicMonitor, Nagios, etc.

See here: http://communities.netapp.com/message/30854

Re: Monitoring

S_EFTEKHARI — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 07:50:06 GMT

Another way you can monitor NetApp is using SCOM / OpsMgr management pack, or solarwind NetApp Profiler. I have used the older version of Profiler in the past and it worked very well. Those are some of the things you can consider and of course budget is important factor. SCOM requires a lot of planning and it makes Changes to AD. I think SolarWind its better option if you already own the product.

http://www.vnext.be/2011/01/08/scom-opsmgr-netapp-management-pack/

http://www.solarwinds.com/resources/datasheets/solarwinds_storage_profiler_for_netapp_datasheet.pdf

Re: Monitoring

watan — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:43:04 GMT

Also just fyi, the vnext link notes ApplianceWatch PRO 2.1 which was a previous release. The latest release is now called NetApp OnCommand Plug-in for Microsoft 3.0 -> http://media.netapp.com/documents/ds-3090.pdf

Re: Monitoring

DBTUNA_JACKY — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:00:52 GMT

Check out www.dbtuna.com. It's monitoring software that works with NetApp at the controller level.

Re: Monitoring

BISHTECHIT — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 01:20:22 GMT

we use a combo of Solarwinds &. NetApp DFM - DFM polls the NAS traps which get reported to Solarwinds.

Re: Monitoring

LADYJESSICA — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 22:09:01 GMT

Hi Ben,

You could also use Splunk. We have recently release our free Splunk App for NetApp Data ONTAP.

http://www.splunk.com/view/netapp/SP-CAAAJGQ

More info here

http://apps.splunk.com/app/1293/

Regards,

Stela Udovicic

Splunk