Fibre Alliance SNMP Agent (Switches)

Description

This connector discovers enclosures and fiber-channel ports of SAN switches as well as various environment sensors (temperatures, fans, power supplies, etc.). It relies on the SNMP protocol and supports the Fibre Alliance MIB (FCMGMT-MIB).

hardware network storage

Enterprise Connector

This connector requires the Enterprise edition of MetricsHub.

Superseded Connector

This connector is superseded by:

• BrocadeSANnavREST
• BrocadeSwitch
• BrocadeSwitchWBEM
• CiscoSSH
• Juniper
• McData

Supersedes

This connector supersedes:

• GenericSwitchEnclosure

Target

Typical platform: SNMP

Operating system: Storage System

Prerequisites

Leverages: Fibre Alliance SNMP Agent (FCMGMT-MIB)

Technology and protocols: SNMP

Examples

CLI

metricshub HOSTNAME -t storage -c +FibreAllianceSwitch --snmp v2c --community public

metricshub.yaml

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: storage
        connectors: [ +FibreAllianceSwitch ] # Optional, to load only this connector
        protocols:
          snmp:
            version: v2c # Read documentation for v1, v2c and v3
            community: public # or probably something more secure

Connector Activation Criteria

The Fibre Alliance SNMP Agent (Switches) connector will be automatically activated, and its status will be reported as OK if all the below criteria are met:

• An SNMP GetNext on the OID 1.3.6.1.3.94.1.6.1.3 must return a value that matches with the \(^4$\)\|\(^14$\) (regular expression)

Metrics

Type	Collected Metrics	Specific Attributes
enclosure	hw.status{hw.type="enclosure", state="present"}	id model serial_number type vendor
fan	hw.status{hw.type="fan", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="fan", state="present"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name sensor_location
network	hw.errors{hw.type="network"} hw.network.bandwidth.limit hw.network.full_duplex hw.network.io{direction="receive"} hw.network.io{direction="transmit"} hw.network.packets{direction="receive"} hw.network.packets{direction="transmit"} hw.network.up hw.status{hw.type="network", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="network", state="present"}	bandwidth device_type hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name physical_address physical_address_type serial_number vendor
power_supply	hw.status{hw.type="power_supply", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="power_supply", state="present"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name power_supply_type
temperature	hw.status{hw.type="temperature", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="temperature", state="present"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name sensor_location