Description

This connector enables hardware monitoring for IBM XIV Storage Systems through the xcli command line utility.

This connector supersedes:

• SMISDiskArray^[2]

hardware^[3] ibm^[4] storage^[5]

Target

Typical platform: IBM XiV Storage System

Operating system: Storage System

Prerequisites

Leverages: xcli command line utility

Technology and protocols: Command Lines

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

Examples

metricshub HOSTNAME -t storage -c +IBMxcli --ssh -u USER

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: storage
        connectors: [ +IBMxcli ] # Optional, to load only this connector
        protocols:
          ssh:
            username: <USERNAME> # Change with actual credentials
            password: <PASSWORD> # Encrypted using metricshub-encrypt

Connector Activation Criteria

The IBM XIV (xcli) connector will be automatically activated, and its status will be reported as OK if all the below criteria are met:

• Operating System is Storage System
• The command below succeeds on the agent host
  • Command: xcli -v
  • Output contains: xcli version: (regex)
• The command below succeeds on the agent host
  • Command: xcli -u %{USERNAME} -p %{PASSWORD} -m %{HOSTNAME} -x -t all cod_list
  • Output contains: system_name (regex)

Metrics