Monitoring - Overview

Determining what information you want to gather about the storage resources within your enterprise is critical to helping you implement a storage management strategy. Once you have determined the types of information you want to collect about your storage resources, you can use monitoring jobs to define and run regularly scheduled jobs that collect information about those resources in your enterprise. Storage resources that you can collect information about includes computers, storage subsystems, virtual machines (for example, Xen virtual machines), clusters, fabrics, LUNs, tape libraries, disk controllers, hard disks, filesystems, and more.

The data and statistics gathered by monitoring jobs are stored in the database repository and are used to supply the data necessary for reports. These reports are located in the Reporting nodes of Data Manager, Disk Manager, and Fabric Manager. The following describes the monitoring jobs that you can run and where you can define them:

Monitoring Job

What does this job do?

Where do you define this job in the user interface?

Probe

Collect detailed statistics about the storage assets in your enterprise, such as computers, storage subsystems, virtual machines, fabrics, LUNs, disk controllers, hard disks, and file systems.

Aperi Storage Manager

Pings

Collect information about the availability of the storage assets in your enterprise.

Data Manager

Creating probe jobs

  1. Expand Aperi Storage Manager > Monitoring.
  2. Right click the Probes node.
  3. Select Create Probe from the pop-up menu.
  4. Define information about the probe using the pages in the content pane:
  5. Select File > Save to save the probe definition. A node for the job appears under the Probes node and the job will run according to the schedule you defined.