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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Target

Typical platform: EMC Unity

Operating system: Storage System

Prerequisites

Leverages: EMC Unity SMI-S Agent

Technology and protocols: WBEM

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

Examples

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

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 to the managed host succeeds:
  • Namespace: root/emc/smis
  • WQL Query: SELECT Dedicated FROM CIM_ComputerSystem
  • Result contains: \(^3|\)\|\(|3|\)\|\(^12|\)\|\(|12|\)\|\(^15|\)\|\(^16|\)\|\(^24|\)\|\(^25|\) (regex)

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