topic Re: Why is "Data Collection" unavailable for cDOT systems within Performance Advisor? in Active IQ Unified Manager Discussions

Why is "Data Collection" unavailable for cDOT systems within Performance Advisor?

chute — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:50:40 GMT

The "Data Collection" option is used not only to define what counters are enabled but also to configure retention periods for specific counters. As you can see below the "Data Collection" option is greyed out and unavailable. You will also notice that my configuration settings seem to be OK. This behavior was happening in a customer environment and I went to test it in my lab and experienced the same result.

Is there something specific to cDOT which is preventing me from enabling certain counters and/or defining my retention periods?

OCUM version 5.2P1 setup specifically for cDOT systems.

C:\dfm host diag 131

Network Connectivity

IP Address 10.x.x.x

Network (discovery disabled)

DNS Aliases Failed

DNS Addresses Failed

SNMP Version in Use SNMPv3

SNMPv1 Passed (78 ms)

SNMP Community public

SNMP sysName add-n1-nas1.netapp.com

SNMP sysObjectID .1.3.6.1.4.1.789.2.5 (Cluster)

SNMPv3 Passed (16 ms)

SNMPv3 Auth Protocol MD5

SNMPv3 Privacy Enabled No

SNMPv3 Username snmpv3_user

SNMP sysName add-n1-nas1.netapp.com

SNMP sysObjectID .1.3.6.1.4.1.789.2.5 (Cluster)

ICMP Echo Passed (0 ms)

HTTP Passed (0 ms)

NDMP (login not set) Skipped

SSH Passed (1264 ms)

RLM Skipped (hostRLMAddress is empty)

XML (https port 443) Passed (249 ms)

Type	Cluster	Cluster
OS Version	8.2 Cluster-Mode	8.2 Cluster-Mode

Performance Advisor Checklist

perfAdvisorEnabled Passed

hostType Passed

hostRevision Passed

hostLogin Passed

perfAdvisorTransport Passed

Re: Why is "Data Collection" unavailable for cDOT systems within Performance Advisor?

kryan — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 20:08:27 GMT

Performance Advisor for Unified Manager 5.x Cluster-Mode cannot be modified in any manner.

There are other posts regarding that topic on this community if you desire to read additional information on the subject.

Kevin

Re: Why is "Data Collection" unavailable for cDOT systems within Performance Advisor?

chute — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:53:53 GMT

Thanks Kevin,

For others, here's some additional reading which calls out retention and counters.

https://communities.netapp.com/message/111502#111502

Re: Why is "Data Collection" unavailable for cDOT systems within Performance Advisor?

adaikkap — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 19:50:02 GMT

Hi Chute,

The TR being referenced in your post is a 7Mode only and not for clustermode. As kevin said there is no way to create or modify the following in case of cluster mode.

create new views( custom view creation)
Modify the retention
Modify the Collection frequency

Regards

adai