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EMC Unity SMI-S Agent

Description​

This connector discovers the enclosure and the disks of Unity disk arrays, as well as the storage pools. It also discovers and monitors the FC ports, network cards of the array and various environment sensors (fans, power supplies, controllers). It relies on the array embedded SMI-S.

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Enterprise Connector

This connector requires the Enterprise edition of MetricsHub.

Target​

Typical platform: Dell EMC VNXe

Operating system: Storage System

This connector is not available for the local host (it is applicable to remote hosts only).

Prerequisites​

Leverages: EMC Unity SMI-S Agent

Technology and protocols: WBEM

Examples​

CLI​

metricshub HOSTNAME -t storage -c +EMCUnity --wbem -u USER

metricshub.yaml​

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: storage
        connectors: [ +EMCUnity ] # Optional, to load only this connector
        protocols:
          wbem:
            protocol: https
            port: 5989
            username: <USERNAME> # Change with actual credentials
            password: <PASSWORD> # Encrypted using metricshub-encrypt

Connector Activation Criteria​

The EMC Unity SMI-S Agent connector will be automatically activated, and its status will be reported as OK if all the below criteria are met:

  • The WBEM query below succeeds:
    • Namespace: root/emc/smis
    • Query: SELECT Dedicated FROM CIM_ComputerSystem
    • Result contains: \(^3|\)\|\(|3|\)\|\(^12|\)\|\(|12|\)\|\(^15|\)\|\(^16|\)\|\(^24|\)\|\(^25|\) (regex)

Metrics​

TypeCollected MetricsSpecific Attributes
enclosurehw.status{hw.type="enclosure", state="degraded|failed|ok"}
hw.status{hw.type="enclosure", state="present"}		id
model
name
serial_number
type
vendor
fanhw.status{hw.type="fan", state="degraded|failed|ok"}
hw.status{hw.type="fan", state="present"}		hw.parent.type
id
name
logical_diskhw.logical_disk.limit
hw.logical_disk.usage{state="free"}
hw.logical_disk.usage{state="used"}		hw.parent.type
id
name
type
networkhw.network.bandwidth.limit
hw.network.up
hw.status{hw.type="network", state="degraded|failed|ok"}
hw.status{hw.type="network", state="present"}		device_type
hw.parent.type
id
name
physical_address
physical_address_type
other_devicehw.status{hw.type="other_device", state="degraded|failed|ok"}
hw.status{hw.type="other_device", state="present"}		device_type
hw.parent.type
id
name
physical_diskhw.physical_disk.size
hw.status{hw.type="physical_disk", state="degraded|failed|ok"}
hw.status{hw.type="physical_disk", state="present"}		hw.parent.type
id
model
name
serial_number
vendor
power_supplyhw.status{hw.type="power_supply", state="degraded|failed|ok"}
hw.status{hw.type="power_supply", state="present"}		hw.parent.type
id
name