FalconStor FreeStor monitoring

In case of usage of Virtual Appliance

• Use local account lpar2rrd for hosting of STOR2RRD on the virtual appliance
• Use /home/stor2rrd/stor2rrd as the product home

The product uses FalconStor REST API interfaces natively provided by FalconStor Manager.

Storage connectivity

• Allow access from the STOR2RRD host to FalconStor Manager (FSM) on ports 443 (HTTP).
  

  $ perl /home/stor2rrd/stor2rrd/bin/conntest.pl 192.168.1.1 443
    Connection to "192.168.1.1" on port "443" is ok
  

• Connect to the FalconStor Management GUI and create stor2rrd user with Viewer role in all Customer/Domains.
  
  User stor2rrd must have the same password in all Customer/Domains.
  

STOR2RRD storage configuration

Add storage into configuration from the UI:
Settings icon ➡ Storage ➡ New ➡ Vendor:device ➡ FalconStor:FreeStor


• Assure you have enough of disk space on the filesystem where is STOR2RRD installed
  Roughly you might count 2 - 30 GB per a storage (it depends on number of volumes, 30GB for 5000 volumes)

  $ df -g /home   # AIX
  $ df -h /home   # Linux
  

• Schedule to run storage agent from stor2rrd crontab (lpar2rrd on Virtual Appliance, it might already exist there)

  $ crontab -l | grep load_falconstorperf.sh
  $
  

  Add if it does not exist as above

  $ crontab -e
  
  # FalconStor FreeStor
  0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /home/stor2rrd/stor2rrd/load_falconstorperf.sh > /home/stor2rrd/stor2rrd/load_falconstorperf.out 2>&1
  

  Assure there is already an entry with the UI creation running once an hour in crontab

  $ crontab -e
  
  # STOR2RRD UI (just ONE entry of load.sh must be there)
  5 * * * * /home/stor2rrd/stor2rrd/load.sh > /home/stor2rrd/stor2rrd/load.out 2>&1
  

• Let run the storage agent for 15 - 20 minutes to get data, then:

  $ cd /home/stor2rrd/stor2rrd
  $ ./load.sh
  

• Go to the web UI: http://<your web server>/stor2rrd/
  Use Ctrl-F5 to refresh the web browser cache.