The ESI Monitoring Management Pack can discover many different system components. The discovery and monitoring of these components is through SCOM agents. The monitoring agent retrieves data from the ESI Service by using a RESTful HTTPS connection, which in turn retrieves the data from the supported (registered) systems. The monitoring data is inserted into the SCOM database.
The ESI Monitoring Management Pack views the components of EMC systems as a graph. The health of each level depends on the health of the components that roll up to the component.
At the lowest level, the SCOM Management Group monitors the physical and logical components, such as disk drives, power supplies, storage volumes, and virtual volumes. The ESI management packs monitor the operational state of the components. For example, when one or more storage or virtual volumes are in an unhealthy state, then the unhealthy state is rolled up to the storage groups containing the volumes.
The ESI Monitoring Management Pack provides the following monitors:
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Monitor |
Action at the set interval |
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Physical Health Monitors check the health of the system physical components, such as the disk drives and power supplies. |
Check the operational status of all of the physical components of a specific class and raise alerts when abnormal conditions are detected. |
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Logical Health Monitors check the health of the logical components, such as the storage pools, storage volumes, and virtual volumes. |
Check the operational status of all of the logical components of a specific class and raise alerts when abnormal conditions are detected. |
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Capacity Monitors check the available capacity of a number of physical and logical system components. |
Check the available and subscribed capacity of the components and issue alerts if limits are met or exceeded. These monitors also collects data for SCOM displays and reports. |
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Diagnostic monitors and rule. |
Check the execution of the management pack components and generate alerts when errors occur. |
The EMC Storage Integrator Monitoring Management Pack monitors all systems that are registered to the ESI Service and all of the physical and logical system components. The following figure shows which system components are monitored and the health rollup component relationships.
If you are supporting mission-critical applications on VMAX and VNX storage systems, you can also set up fault monitoring, fault reporting, call home, and remote diagnostics features to ensure redundancy for VNX and VMAX arrays.
EMC System Components Monitored by the ESI Monitoring Management Pack
