hi Jeff,
Regarding to your "single pane of glass" requirement, I would like to highlight a few things you might not be aware of currently in IBM Spectrum Control (or IBM Storage Insights).
There are a few controls as described here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS5R93_5.4.1/com.ibm.spectrum.sc.doc/tpch_r_performance_view_controls.html
and 2 of those controls are :
- Open the performance view in a separate web browser window
- Synchronize the time range across all the open performance views
I'm attaching here a screen capture which hopefully illustrates the controls
so you can drill-into the performance of a Disk from the Storage level (or ports) and you can open URL address-able panels for your performance investigation, then for example you see something out of the line for mdisk around time X, please note that you can change the interval at the top using 1h, 6h .. 1yeah, or bellow the chart if you prefer a specific time frame, then if you hit "Synchronize time range .." then all the other panels will sync with the panel where you found a possible culprit.
As mentioned, these Performance Charts are URL address-able, you can build very easily a single pane (with performance charts of your choise) using a simple HTML page, embed it into an IFRAME.
Similarly the Performance Chart can be embedded into a Grafana dashboard : https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/sharing/share-panel/ i suspect if you provide that URL it should work, though I never tried.
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Original Message:
Sent: Mon January 25, 2021 01:56 PM
From: Jeff Allen
Subject: IBM Storage & Influx/Grafana
Thanks a lot for your responses.
(and sorry to hijack the thread @Richard)
In my case, I do have Spectrum Control which I use quite a lot. The thing is that people are wanting these days a "single pane of glass". Where Grafana would be the one place that everyone can look at all system metrics, at least at a high level. This allows SRE to correlate SAN activity such as a large spike in Latency for example, with other server activity before escalating to the Storage SME.
I'm not sure if the screencap I've posted here will work. But this is an example I have running that tracks one of my V7000 in Grafana, it's been running fine for several years but is super finicky if I want to add new storage arrays, unknown whether 9200 will even work with it for example.
So I guess my real issue is that I'm forced to run an unofficial, not maintained collector with minimal instructions, where preferably there would be an official one produced by IBM.
Regards,
Jeff Allen
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Jeff Allen
Original Message:
Sent: Mon January 25, 2021 08:15 AM
From: Michael Pirker
Subject: IBM Storage & Influx/Grafana
Hello Richard,
The SVA tool BVQ also provides Grafana dashboards for IBM Sectrum virtualize like storage. If you only want to do monitoring, you can cover that very inexpensively with the right edition. Alerting, reporting and systems health map are also included. (I am from the BVQ team)
This is the link to our technical documentation:
https://bvqwiki.sva.de/x/2YAwBQ
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Original Message:
Sent: Tue January 19, 2021 05:07 AM
From: Richard Lanicca
Subject: IBM Storage & Influx/Grafana
Hi Dominic.
Looks very good.
Now I need the analog for IBM Storage products (e.g. for IBM SVC/Storwize/FlashSystem/DS8k)
Thank you
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Richard Lanicca
Original Message:
Sent: Mon January 18, 2021 02:03 AM
From: Dominic Müller-Wicke
Subject: IBM Storage & Influx/Grafana
The open source project SPPMON was implemented to provide comprehensive monitoring options for IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.
It bases on Influx and Grafana. Find the project here: spectrum-protect-sppmon
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Dominic Müller-Wicke
Original Message:
Sent: Thu January 07, 2021 10:50 AM
From: Richard Lanicca
Subject: IBM Storage & Influx/Grafana
Are there any Influx/Grafana implementations with IBM storage products (mainly Virtualize)?
I found one project on github: jbrt/svc2influxdb
Anything else?
Thank you
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Richard Lanicca
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