Infinidat monitoring: InfiniBox InfiniGuard

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 Infinidat InfiniBox REST API interface natively provided by the storage to get all necessary data.

InfiniBox monitoring schema

Storage connectivity

  • Allow access from the STOR2RRD host to the Infinidat InfiniBox storage on port 443 (https).
    $ perl /home/stor2rrd/stor2rrd/bin/conntest.pl 192.168.1.1 443
  Connection to "192.168.1.1" on port "443" is ok
  • Create user stor2rrd on the Infinidat InfiniBox storage with read_only role.

STOR2RRD storage configuration

  • All actions below under stor2rrd user (lpar2rrd on Virtual Appliance)

  • Add storage into configuration from the UI:
    Settings icon ➡ Storage ➡ New ➡ Vendor:device ➡ Infinidat InfiniBox
    INFINIDAT Infinibox Storage management

  • Make sure 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
  • Test storage connectivity, either from the UI or from the command line: 
    $ cd /home/stor2rrd/stor2rrd
$ ./bin/config_check.sh Infinibox_alias01
  =====================
  STORAGE: Infinibox_alias01 : INFINIBOX
  =====================
  connection ok
    If you get an errors like "Missing LWP::Protocol::https", "Connection reset by peer" or "500 SSL negotiation failed" then follow this.

  • Schedule to run storage agent from stor2rrd crontab (lpar2rrd on Virtual Appliance, it might already exist there) 
    $ crontab -l | grep load_infiniboxperf.sh
$
    Add if it does not exist as above 
    $ crontab -e

# Infinibox Storage agent
0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /home/stor2rrd/stor2rrd/load_infiniboxperf.sh > /home/stor2rrd/stor2rrd/load_infiniboxperf.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.
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 InfiniMetrics REST API interface get all necessary data.

InfiniGuard monitoring schema

Storage connectivity

  • Allow access from the STOR2RRD host to InfiniMetrics port 443 (https).
    $ perl /home/stor2rrd/stor2rrd/bin/conntest.pl 192.168.1.1 443
  Connection to "192.168.1.1" on port "443" is ok
  • Create a local read-only user for stor2rrd on InfiniGuard
    The process is to create the local stor2rrd read_only user on InfiniGuard and use the same user (and the same password) on stor2rrd
    Infinidat InfiniGuard user management

STOR2RRD storage configuration

  • All actions below under stor2rrd user (lpar2rrd on Virtual Appliance)

  • Add storage into configuration from the UI:
    Settings icon ➡ Storage ➡ New ➡ Vendor:device ➡ Infinidat InfiniGuard
    Infinidat InfiniGuard Storage management

    Configure every storage you want to monitor, use same System name alias as you see in the Infinimetrics.

  • Make sure 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
  • Test storage connectivity, either from the UI or from the command line: 
    $ cd /home/stor2rrd/stor2rrd
$ ./bin/config_check.sh Infinidat-Infiniguard1
  =====================
  STORAGE: Infinidat-Infiniguard1 : INFINIGUARD
  =====================
  connection ok
    If you get an errors like "Missing LWP::Protocol::https", "Connection reset by peer" or "500 SSL negotiation failed" then follow this.

  • Schedule to run storage agent from stor2rrd crontab (lpar2rrd on Virtual Appliance, it might already exist there) 
    $ crontab -l | grep load_infiniguardperf.sh
$
    Add if it does not exist as above 
    $ crontab -e

# Infiniguard Storage agent
0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /home/stor2rrd/stor2rrd/load_infiniguardperf.sh > /home/stor2rrd/stor2rrd/load_infiniguardperf.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.