Dell EMC Isilon - PowerScale

Dell EMC Isilon - PowerScale

Monitor your Dell EMC Isilon / Powerscale clusters through the OneFS API

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Overview

This extension provides the ability to remotely monitor Dell EMC Isilon clusters through the OneFS API

Every minute, this extension polls the API to ingest cluster, license, statfs, quotas, zones, network pools, storage pools and node metrics.

Use cases

This is intended for users, who:

Would like to monitor the health and performance of their Isilon components
Look for analysis support for Ops, IT and developers.

This enables you to:

Monitor Isilon with a dedicated dashboard and Dynatrace entities to represent core components
Detect anomalies and alert on them

Get started

Activate the extension in your environment using the in-product Hub, provide the required authentication configuration. Follow the instructions and prompts within the extension settings.

Cluster URL
Username
Password

Details

The extension uses the OneFS API to collect important Isilon component metrics.

User Permissions: The extension requires the following Read-Only permissions:

ISI_PRIV_LOGIN_PAPI
ISI_PRIV_STATISTICS
ISI_PRIV_AUTH
ISI_PRIV_NETWORK
ISI_PRIV_DEVICES
ISI_PRIV_QUOTA
ISI_PRIV_SMARTPOOLS

You can create a dynatrace monitoring role with:

isi auth roles create --name dynatrace --description "Dynatrace Read-only"
isi auth roles modify dynatrace --add-priv-ro=ISI_PRIV_LOGIN_PAPI --add-priv-ro=ISI_PRIV_STATISTICS --add-priv-ro=ISI_PRIV_AUTH --add-priv-ro=ISI_PRIV_NETWORK --add-priv-ro=ISI_PRIV_DEVICES --add-priv-ro=ISI_PRIV_QUOTA --add-priv-ro=ISI_PRIV_SMARTPOOLS

Compatibility information

Dell EMC Isilon
Dell PowerScale
OneFS version 8.1.1.0+ (API version 6+). Dell OneFS Supported Releases

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Extension content

Content typeNumber of items included

alerts

4

generic type

8

generic relationship

7

screen chart groups

5

dashboards

1

screen layout

1

metric metadata

50

screen entities lists

7

Feature sets

Below is a complete list of the feature sets provided in this version. To ensure a good fit for your needs, individual feature sets can be activated and deactivated by your administrator during configuration.

Feature setsNumber of metrics included

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Storage Pool Used Bytes	isilon.storagepool.bytes.used	Storage Pool Used Bytes	Byte
Storage Pool HDD Used Bytes	isilon.storagepool.bytes.hdd.used	Storage Pool HDD Used Bytes	Byte
Storage Pool SDD Used Bytes	isilon.storagepool.bytes.sdd.used	Storage Pool SDD Used Bytes	Byte
Storage Pool Total Bytes	isilon.storagepool.bytes.total	Storage Pool Total Bytes	Byte
Storage Pool HDD Total Bytes	isilon.storagepool.bytes.hdd.total	Storage Pool HDD Total Bytes	Byte
Storage Pool SDD Total Bytes	isilon.storagepool.bytes.sdd.total	Storage Pool SDD Total Bytes	Byte

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Network Pool TTL	isilon.networkpool.ttl	network pool ttl	Count

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
License Status	isilon.license.status	The status of the license. It may be licensed=0, unlicensed (inactive=-2 or expired=-1), or an evaluation license=1	Count
License Days to Expiry	isilon.license.days_to_expiry	license days to expiry	Day

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Node Status	isilon.node.status	The overall health of the node - ok=0, attn=1, down=2, invalid=3.	Count

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Zone Entry expiry	isilon.zone.cache.entry_expiry	zone entry expiry	Count

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Quota Usage	isilon.quota.usage	The current quota usage in bytes.	Byte
Quota Inode Usage	isilon.quota.inodes	The number of inodes (directories and files) covered by the quota.	Count

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Statfs Bytes Available	isilon.statfs.bavail	f_bavail	Byte
Statfs Bytes Free	isilon.statfs.bfree	f_bfree	Byte
Statfs Bytes Locks	isilon.statfs.blocks	f_blocks	Byte
Statfs Files Free	isilon.statfs.ffree	f_ffree	Count
Statfs Files	isilon.statfs.files	f_files	Count
Statfs Flags	isilon.statfs.flags	f_flags	Count

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Disk IOPS	isilon.cluster.disk.iops	disk iops	Count
Disk Read	isilon.cluster.disk.read	disk read	Count
Disk Write	isilon.cluster.disk.write	disk write	Count
Incoming Network Errors	isilon.cluster.network.in.errors_per_sec	incoming network errors per sec	PerSecond
Incoming Network Traffic	isilon.cluster.network.in.megabytes_per_sec	incoming network megabytes per sec	MegaBytePerSecond
Incoming Network Packets	isilon.cluster.network.in.packets_per_sec	incoming network packets per sec	PerSecond
Outgoing Network Errors	isilon.cluster.network.out.errors_per_sec	outgoing network errors per sec	PerSecond
Outgoing Network Traffic	isilon.cluster.network.out.megabytes_per_sec	outgoing network megabytes per sec	MegaBytePerSecond
Outgoing Network Packets	isilon.cluster.network.out.packets_per_sec	outgoing network packets per sec	PerSecond
OneFS incoming	isilon.cluster.onefs.in	onefs in	Count
OneFS Outgoing	isilon.cluster.onefs.out	onefs out	Count
OneFS Total	isilon.cluster.onefs.total	onefs total	Count

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
System CPU usage	isilon.cluster.system.cpu	system cpu	Percent
System Disk In	isilon.cluster.system.disk_in	disk in	Count
System Disk Out	isilon.cluster.system.disk_out	disk out	Count
System ftp	isilon.cluster.system.ftp	ftp	Count
System HDFS	isilon.cluster.system.hdfs	hdfs	Count
System HTTP	isilon.cluster.system.http	http	Count
System Net In	isilon.cluster.system.net_in	net in	Count
System Net Out	isilon.cluster.system.net_out	net out	Count
System NFS	isilon.cluster.system.nfs	nfs	Count
System S3	isilon.cluster.system.s3	s3	Count
System SMB	isilon.cluster.system.smb	smb	Count
System Total	isilon.cluster.system.total	total	Count

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Active Clients	isilon.clientstats.active	ClientStats Active - by Node and by protocol type	Count

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Node Uptime	isilon.node.uptime	node uptime	Second
Node Partition Count	isilon.node.partitions	node partitions	Count
Node Powersupply Status	isilon.node.powersupply.status	node powersupply status	Count
Node Powersupply Count	isilon.node.powersupply.count	node powersupply Count	Count
Node Powersupply Failures	isilon.node.powersupply.failures	node powersupply Failures	Count

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Cluster Status	isilon.cluster.status	The overall health of the cluster - ok=0, attn=1, down=2, invalid=3.	Count

Full version history

To have more information on how to install the downloaded package, please follow the instructions on this page.

ReleaseDate

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Bug Fix: Correctly filter on enabled feature sets

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Fix metric collection for network pool TTL and quote usage

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Include 'active clients' metric from Isilon client stats
- Node ID and Protocol Dimensions
- Enable the 'client-stats' feature set to start collecting this metric
Assign metrics to the Isilon entity for tagging and management zone rules

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Support for older API versions (down to API version 6, OneFS 8.1.1.0)

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Entity naming and screen improvements
Additional node powersupply metrics
Refined feature sets

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Update feature sets
Improve configuration and Documentation.
Support skipping SSL verification and custom certificates
Drop SDK dependency and improve error handling for API requests
Update topology, dashboards and unified analysis screens
Note: You can't update an old monitoring configuration to this version. Instead, add a new monitoring configuration and remove the existing <v1.0.5 one.

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Add metric feature set

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Resolves an openssl and urllib3 compatibility error

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