Monitoring Centera

We have ControlCenter 6.0 and the alert messages are very cryptic.  For node alerts, the object is the node ID, so if you have multiple Centeras, you can't immediately identify which one has the node problem.    Here's a sample of an node alert: Component sensor - node with value $Foundation.Cluster.RegenerationManager.Main.FailedRegenerations@$CLUSTER:c005n01:085e1900-1dd2-11b2-a557-f330426e992c:1.0 on node c005n01 (085e1900-1dd2-11b2-a557-f330426e992c )

Here's a sample of a disk alert: Component disk - /dev/cstardn on node c002n15 (ae5b4788-1dd1-11b2-aed1-c2079d6b54c6 ).  Again the object listed is the node, not the centera frame.

We've been told that ECC 6.1 provides better alerting but we haven't upgraded yet due to various issues.

Agent installation is very easy.  We created a user account with monitor permissions on each Centera and generated security files (.pea).  We copied those files from the centeras into a folder on the server where the agent is running and pointed the agent to each file as part of the assisted discovery.

Thank you Elizabeth. I am running ECC 6.1 so it will be interesting to see what i get ( I will post some sample alerts). ECC documentation says that anonymous profile on Centera has default rights monitoring=yes ..supposedly i don't need to create a PEA file. I have a bunch of pools so creating a PEA file for each pool with be cumbersome to manage.

Allen,

what kind of alerts are you getting ? I am interesting to know when nodes go down or drive failures.

I'm running v6.1 and we are monitoring our Centeras with no special permissions set up (and no pea file generated). We don't get a lot from them, but we do get the occasional alert. For the most part we just use it for gathering data to add into our StorageScope reporting.

Well, that should have been a simple question to answer, but for some reason I'm not getting anything in the Alert History for my Centera arrays. Not sure what is wrong yet... but I know I have had alerts from these boxes so obviously I'm missing something.

Thanks dynamox! I really needed something else to figure out :-)

maybe Centera alerting is not working or Centera is just rock solid ( pipe dream)   . Glad i could help make your day more "adventurous"

Well, I know it isn't absolutely rock solid because we also get e-mail alerts (copied on the alerts that are e-mailed home to EMC). I'm certain that I have also seen these alerts in the Console, but maybe they are generated under a different object (some alerts are like that). I'm going to keep digging.