Monitoring Actual Available/Used Storage Space on V5000

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Hi everyone,

We want to monitor the actual available and used storage space on our V5000 storage system in CMK. I understand that the lsarray command in the CLI needs to be executed to retrieve the actual capacity. You can find more details here: IBM Documentation - lsarray command

My question is, do we need to write a separate plugin for CMK to automatically monitor and display the output of this command? If so, how should we approach this, and does anyone have experience with this?

Thanks in advance for your responses and help!

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Hi Greg,
you have to create an SSH key-pair on your monitoring site and place the public key on the storage’s webinterface (upper right corner).

Then you create a new rule under: Setup => Agents => Other integrations => IBM SVC / V7000 storage systems

Then you should get most of these checks depending on exact hardware model:

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I added a 5015 and 5030 and both worked like a charm.

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Hi Simon,

Thank you for your response. Based on your instructions, I created the rule and applied it to the storage systems:

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However, what I’m looking to monitor is the total free physical space on the HDDs. (I’m quite new to this, so apologies if I’m being a bit amateurish here.) Unfortunately, creating this rule didn’t resolve that, as I don’t see any monitoring for this under the services…

Best regards,
Greg

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As far as i know - this is not possible. Do you know a CLI command that shows this information?
You see the usage of your defined MDisksGroups, MDisk state and the state of the physical disks.

In your first post you only mentioned the used and available storage space, this information is the MDisksGroups check.

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Hey,

As far as I know, the lsarray command should do the trick. See the link at the top. Tia.

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Lsarray is used by the special agent for the array section. That means the information you want should be in the array check.
You can inspect the special agent output and take a look at the array section.

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