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Re: What features do you need added to Operations Manager?

nagendrk@netapp.com — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:20:57 GMT

Performance Advisor has some more features added in upcoming release. You can try this out by participating in OM 4.0 beta program - http://communities.netapp.com/docs/DOC-4597

Re: What features do you need added to Operations Manager?

community@netapp.com — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:46:03 GMT

Interesting... I have seen other customers who have built scripted log monitors that pull their messages and syslog to a central location (the DFM server in this instance) and then use parsing to highlight items of interest, your vscan.dropped.connection would be one example of messages they parse for and alert;

I was also asked about this precise functionality not 30 minutes ago...

Cheers
Rich

Re: What features do you need added to Operations Manager?

community@netapp.com — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:41:43 GMT

Hi,

You'll see the Custom Zoom feature in the next release of PerfAdvisor;

Interesting points on the other requests

Cheers

Rich

Re: What features do you need added to Operations Manager?

community@netapp.com — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:01:45 GMT

When implementing some monitoring I like my customers to keep a high level track of aggregate and volume/LUN performance - to be aware of spindle limits on an aggregate level combined with latency and CPU stats. Great job in being able to create combined stats alerting, this works wonders!

Something I would like to do but have not found an ideal way to do is to create a threshold for aggregate performance and when it triggers export an email report of the top 10 LUN/Volume IOPS/Latency creating that specific load. It would be nice to just add this into the NMC GUI to set up. Or really any way to easily find out which objects played a role in an aggregate peak performance at some point in time.

On a same note (maybe we are blind) but there does not seem to be a way to view perf data in the NMC with a custom zoom to a specific period, there are buttons for 1-6 hours or max. I would like to be able to zoom to, say, 11-14 nov 2009 and view that period.

Also when you create custom views and want to change them we can only remove charts instead of edit them which is kind of cumbersome.

For operations manager itself I always find myself creating custom views for LUN/snapreserve/fractional reserve space overviews, in line with the latest best practices on thin provisioning it would make sense to have some detailed standard dashboards to more easily find out about the myriad levels of space management involved.

Re: What features do you need added to Operations Manager?

matthewt@netapp.com — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:32:40 GMT

I would like the ability to script custom events that self-heal, like the built-in ones do.

For example when an aggregate-full alarm is issued, the aggregate-space-normal event will cause the original to be removed and the status set to green.

Right now I am writing my scripts to re-test all original events and manually delete them if the situation no longer persists, but this is really cumbersome.

Re: What features do you need added to Operations Manager?

community@netapp.com — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:39:44 GMT

Richard,

For Reporting

Ability to show Dropped vscan errors from /etc/messages for each filer/all filers

I used perl to search keyword "vscan.dropped.connection" on any filer

Reporting (general)

Ability to report on LDAP domains to which Filers / vFilers are bound (you added Windows [netbios] and NIS to 3.8 but LDAP is still not there
Ability to report on which virus scanners are registered to each Filer

Re: What features do you need added to Operations Manager?

community@netapp.com — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:25:05 GMT

Hi Robert,

What exactly do you feel is awkward and obscure about Protection Manager's GUI?

Please elaborate.

Is it the concepts of Data Sets, Policies and Resource Pools or something more fundamental in the user interface design.

As the designer, I'd like to get more consrtuctivre feedback than blanket stements like "this sucks and needs a redesign".

Finally, you a wrong about hte target user for Protection Manager.

It was never designed for a dedicated backup administrator that uses NetBackup. It was designed for a storage administrator using disk to disk backup on Netapp equiment only.

Re: What features do you need added to Operations Manager?

community@netapp.com — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:18:19 GMT

and what about Protection Mananger makes the job harder?

Re: What features do you need added to Operations Manager?

community@netapp.com — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:31:24 GMT

Central facility for managing all SnapManagers, with SNMP enabled for all SnapManager events. Consistent log, email and SNMP formats for all events produced by any SnapManager. A central catalog of all application-aware snapshots and snapmirrors, including coordination with job scheduling so you can see lag times and missed snaps or replication. I also agree with Dan' s observation that Protection Manager's human interface is awkward and obscure, needs a complete redesign. NetApp data protection is serving essentially the same set of administrators as NetBackup (except with a D2D focus) but lacks tools that support the dedicated backup teams found in every medium-to-large data center.

Re: What features do you need added to Operations Manager?

community@netapp.com — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:04:40 GMT

It would be great to see functionality developed that transferred DFM/OM settings (i.e., dfm eventtype, custom reports, etc.) between multiple instances. Large environments are difficult to standardize as there is no simple method to export/import OM only objects (Performance Advisor in the NMC already supports this with thresholds and threshold templates).

Thanks,

sean.