SMI-S Compliant HBAs

Description

This connector discovers the HBAs of a server. It relies on the WBEM technology and supports SMI-S compliant HBAs only.

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Enterprise Connector

This connector requires the Enterprise edition of MetricsHub.

Superseded Connector

This connector is superseded by:

• EmulexHbacmd
• HPUXHBA
• QlogicSCLI
• WBEMGenHBA

Target

Typical platform: SMI-S

Operating systems: Microsoft Windows, Linux, IBM AIX, HP-UX, HP Tru64, HP OpenVMS, Oracle Solaris, Out-Of-Band

Prerequisites

Leverages: SMI-S Agent provided by the HBA vendor

Technology and protocols: WBEM

Examples

CLI

metricshub HOSTNAME -t win -c +SMISHBA --wbem -u USER

metricshub.yaml

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: win
        connectors: [ +SMISHBA ] # 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 SMI-S Compliant HBAs 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: Automatic
  • Query: SELECT PortType FROM CIM_FCPort
  • Result contains: \(0\)\|\(1\)\|\(10\)\|\(11\)\|\(12\); (regex)
• The WBEM query below succeeds:
  • Namespace: Automatic
  • Query: SELECT CreationClassName FROM CIM_FCPort
  • Result contains: \([Hh][Bb][Aa]\)\|\([Qq][Ll]ogic\)\|\(IBM_FCPort\)\|\(HPUX_FCPort\)\|\(ELX\) (regex)

Metrics

Type	Collected Metrics	Specific Attributes
network	hw.errors{hw.type="network"} hw.network.bandwidth.limit 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.type id model name physical_address physical_address_type vendor