Description

This connector discovers the enclosure and the disks of Hitachi SAN disk arrays, as well as the storage pools and storage volumes. It also discovers and monitors the FC ports of the array and various environment sensors when available (temperatures, fans, power supplies, etc.). It relies on the WBEM technology and supports SMI-S compliant disk arrays only.

This connector is superseded by:

• HitachiGSeriesREST^[2]
• HitachiVSPSNMP^[3]

This connector supersedes:

• SMISDiskArray^[4]

enterprise^[5] hardware^[6] hitachi^[7] storage^[8]

Target

Typical platforms: Hitachi AMS Hitachi HUS Hitachi USP Hitachi VSP

Operating system: Storage System

Prerequisites

Leverages: Hitachi Storage Command Suite SMI-S Agent

Technology and protocols: WBEM

Examples

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

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: storage
        connectors: [ +HitachiDiskArray ] # 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 Hitachi Storage Command Suite 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/smis/current
  • WQL Query: SELECT Name,Dedicated FROM HITACHI_StorageSystem
• The WBEM query below to the managed host succeeds:
  • Namespace: root/smis/current
  • WQL Query: SELECT DeviceID FROM HITACHI_DiskDrive

Metrics