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McData Fibre Switch

Description​

This connector discovers the enclosure and fiber-channel ports of McData SAN switches as well as various environment sensors (temperatures, fans, power supplies, etc.). It relies on the SNMP protocol.

blade hardware mcdata storage

Enterprise Connector

This connector requires the Enterprise edition of MetricsHub.

Supersedes

This connector supersedes:

Target​

Typical platform: McData

Operating system: Storage System

Prerequisites​

Leverages: McData SNMP Agent (EF-6000-MIB)

Technology and protocols: SNMP

Examples​

CLI​

metricshub HOSTNAME -t storage -c +McData --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: [ +McData ] # 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 McData Fibre Switch 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 1.3.6.1.4.1.289.2.1.1.2.2.1.1 must return a non-empty value

Metrics​

TypeCollected MetricsSpecific Attributes
bladehw.status{hw.type="blade", state="degraded|failed|ok"}
hw.status{hw.type="blade", state="present"}		blade_name
hw.parent.type
id
info
model
name
serial_number
enclosurehw.status{hw.type="enclosure", state="present"}id
model
serial_number
type
vendor
fanhw.status{hw.type="fan", state="degraded|failed|ok"}
hw.status{hw.type="fan", state="present"}		hw.parent.type
id
info
name
sensor_location
networkhw.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
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
info
name
power_supplyhw.status{hw.type="power_supply", state="degraded|failed|ok"}
hw.status{hw.type="power_supply", state="present"}		hw.parent.type
id
info
name
power_supply_type
temperaturehw.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