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automatic reports in performance advisor

TThaens24 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:24:43 GMT

Hello all,

We are trying to follow-up the performance on our NetApp boxes.

The first step is checking the CPU and disk IOPS.

With operations manager, I was able to get the CPU graph automatically in our report (using wget to download the biggraph).

But the disk performance report in operations manager is a bit basic.

Using the NetApp management console, we get nice images from performance advisor. But to get these in a report, someone has to group through all the disks, and saving the image this way.

Is it also possible to get images from performance manager in an automatic way?

Kind regards

Re: automatic reports in performance advisor

geddam — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:16:13 GMT

It's not possible to do automatically. But using following CLI you can get the data for the each object.

dfm perf data retrieve { [ -o object-name-or-id ... ] [ -C perf-counter ... ]

[ -V view-name ] }

[ -d duration ] [ -b start-time ] [ -e end-time ]

[ -M month ... ] [ -D weekday ... ] [ -T time-range ... ]

[ -m statistical-method [ -P percentile-value ]

[ -S data-advance-method ] ]

[ -s sample-rate ] [ -x output-format ] [ -R ]

Ex:

dfm perf data retrieve -o 1232 -V "Disk Summary View" (For multiple objects you have to give multiple objects in this CLI or write a script using this cli)

Using some graphing tool these data can be converted into a chart.

Regards,

Kishore

Re: automatic reports in performance advisor

TThaens24 — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:25:24 GMT

Hi,

Thanks already, something like this was exactly what I was looking for.

But it seems that dfm perf data retrieve does not exist:

root@bru0268x:/> dfm perf data retrieve
Error: Unknown command: retrieve

Use "dfm perf help" or "dfm perf data help" for usage information.
root@bru0268x:/>

Looking what dfm perf data sub-commands exist, I get:

root@bru0268x:/> dfm perf data help

NAME
data -- Manage performance data

SYNOPSIS
    dfm perf data list [-v | -h] [ -o <object-name-or-id> ] [ -G <counter-group-name> ]

    dfm perf data describe [-v] <counter-group-name> <object-name-or-id>

    dfm perf data modify [ -f ] <counter-group-name>
                [ sampleRate=<sample_rate> ] [ collectionPeriod=<collection-period> ]

DESCRIPTION
The perf data commands allow the user to list and modify
the performance data that is collected by the server

root@bru0268x:/>

I did find a dfm perf view retrieve command, but this doens't realy gives me usefull info:

dfm perf view retrieve [ -a <appliance-name-or-id> | -g <group-name-or-id> ]
[ -o <perf-object> ] [ -i <perf-instance> ]
<view-name> <starttime> <endtime>

Kind regards

Re: automatic reports in performance advisor

geddam — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:02:40 GMT

Hi,

Sorry the data retrive CLI will be available in DFM 4.0.

perf view retrieve do same job. See below example

dfm perf view retrieve -a zidane "Disk summary view" "2009-08-20 00:00:00" "2009-12-12 00:00:00" | more

Above CLI returns the data for given time period for all the disks in a Zidane Storage system.

Regards,

Kishore

Re: automatic reports in performance advisor

TThaens24 — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:01:57 GMT

OK,

getting a bit further.

And how should I interprete this data?

View Name: Disk Summary View
View Sample Rate: 60 seconds.
View Sample Buffer: 604800 seconds.
Timestamp      huzdfas01:disk:*:user_reads
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
14 Aug 09:35:35     1166.032959
14 Aug 09:36:36     1754.311035
14 Aug 09:37:35     2149.153076
14 Aug 09:38:35     1498.050049
14 Aug 09:39:35     1303.050049
14 Aug 09:40:35     1439.199951
14 Aug 09:41:35     1393.333008
14 Aug 09:42:35     1186.883057
14 Aug 09:43:35     1297.416992
14 Aug 09:44:35     1321.750000
14 Aug 09:45:35     1631.333008
14 Aug 09:46:35     1262.833008
14 Aug 09:47:35     1715.516968
14 Aug 09:48:35     1291.300049
14 Aug 09:49:35     1594.432983
14 Aug 09:50:35     1568.217041
14 Aug 09:51:35     1272.532959
14 Aug 09:52:35     1365.900024
14 Aug 09:53:35     1341.633057
14 Aug 09:54:35     1252.282959
14 Aug 09:55:36     1637.098022
14 Aug 09:56:35     1552.135986
14 Aug 09:57:35     1454.967041
14 Aug 09:58:35     1296.782959
14 Aug 09:59:35     1164.782959
14 Aug 10:00:35     2459.649902
14 Aug 10:01:35     1938.916992
14 Aug 10:02:35     2260.366943
14 Aug 10:03:36     1570.098022
14 Aug 10:04:36     1631.166992
14 Aug 10:05:35     1598.948975
14 Aug 10:06:35     1573.883057
14 Aug 10:07:35     1688.833008
14 Aug 10:08:35     1644.000000
14 Aug 10:09:35     1578.432983
14 Aug 10:10:35     1458.817017
14 Aug 10:11:35     1635.333008
14 Aug 10:12:35     1545.050049
14 Aug 10:13:35     1642.766968
14 Aug 10:14:36     1165.508057
14 Aug 10:15:35     1866.458008
14 Aug 10:16:35     1314.333008

How can I know from which disk this is?

Re: automatic reports in performance advisor

geddam — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:46:56 GMT

Here is the example to get the details. Here Zidane is a Storage System.

[root@wills ~]# dfm perf view retrieve -a zidane "volume summary view" "2009-08-20 00:00:00" "2009-12-12 00:00:00" | more

View Name: Volume Summary View

View Sample Rate: 60 seconds.

View Sample Buffer: 604800 seconds.

Timestamp zidane:lun:kingfisher_backup/datalun/datalun:avg_latency

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

20 Aug 00:01:34 0.000000

20 Aug 00:02:34 0.000000

20 Aug 00:03:34 0.000000

20 Aug 00:04:34 0.000000

20 Aug 00:05:34 0.000000

20 Aug 00:06:34 0.000000

20 Aug 00:07:34 0.000000

20 Aug 00:08:34 0.000000

20 Aug 00:09:34 0.000000

20 Aug 00:10:34 0.000000

20 Aug 00:11:34 0.000000

20 Aug 00:12:34 0.000000

20 Aug 00:13:34 0.000000

20 Aug 00:14:34 0.000000

20 Aug 00:15:34 0.000000

20 Aug 00:16:34 0.000000

20 Aug 00:17:34 0.000000

Re: automatic reports in performance advisor

TThaens24 — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:37:56 GMT

Thanks,

This indeed provided me the correct info's.

Also with the "dfm perf view list" I found all different kinds of views I could retrieve.

I also found a nice tool which can make graphs from data on a linux cli.

If anyone else need such a thing : gnuplot

Kind regards

Re: automatic reports in performance advisor

tgottenoef — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 11:03:45 GMT

hallo tthanes24,

you mentioned, you could wget the biggraph, for example cpu1m graph. Could please post me the path to get this as picture format. I only get logo.gif and others but not the graph.

Thanks Thomas