EMC ISILON storage monitoring

What is a Dell EMC Isilon storage?

The Dell EMC Isilon Storage, a product of EMC², is a highly scalable network-attached storage (NAS) platform, designed with flexibility and robustness in mind. The system boasts a cluster-based storage array, constructed on the foundation of industry-standard hardware. A standout feature of this platform is its ability to scale up to an impressive 50 petabytes within a single filesystem. This capability is powered by its FreeBSD-derived OneFS file system, further highlighting the system's commitment to providing expansive storage solutions.

How to monitor a Dell EMC Isilon storage?

ServicePilot makes it very easy to monitor a Dell EMC Isilon storage. Simply configure the SNMP interface of the Dell EMC Isilon storage device. Then use the ServicePilot web interface to add a resource from the ServicePilot storage-emc-isilon package.

The monitoring statistics gathered in this way include:

• For each disk discovered
  • Model
  • Serial number
  • Size
  • Status
• For the cluster
  • Health Status
  • Number of nodes
  • Network and IFS in traffic and out traffic
  • More information about licenses, snapshots, etc.

How to install a emc-isilon resource?

1. Use your ServicePilot OnPremise installation or a SaaS account.
2. Add a new emc-isilon resource via the web interface (/prmviews or /prmresources) or via API (/prmpackages page), the default ServicePilot agent or another agent will be provisioned automatically.

Details of the emc-isilon package are located in the /prmpackages page of the software.

Benefits

ServicePilot enables you to deliver IT services faster and more securely with automated discovery and advanced monitoring features.

By correlating the technology EMC ISILON with APM and infrastructure monitoring, ServicePilot is able to provide a more comprehensive view of an organization's IT environment.

This allows IT teams to quickly identify and diagnose issues that may be impacting application performance, and take corrective action before end-users are affected.

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