To establish an access point for BVQ, it's necessary to create user accounts on the respective systems you wish to monitor.
For instance, if you have three NetApp clusters, you'll need to create a user account on each cluster.
This procedure is applicable to all systems you aim to connect to BVQ.
After creating a specific new user on a system, proceed to set up a BVQ Scanner on your BVQ Server using that user account.
The BVQ Scanner will then establish a connection to the system to collect the requisite data.
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System preparation stepsFor the communication of the BVQ SVC Scanner with the SVC CLI a user account on each SVC is mandatory, which should be at least member of the group 'Monitor'.
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| Create a BVQ user on the system| Expand |
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| svctask mkuser -name bvq -usergrp Monitor -password P@ssw0rd |
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| svctask mkuser -name bvq -usergrp Administrator -password P@ssw0rd |
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| Please check if an NTP server is configured: we strongly recommend to its mandatory to use an NTP server to synchronize the time of all systems (SVC Nodes, Windows): | Code Block |
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| svcinfo lssystem | grep 'ntp_IP_address' |
Set your NTP Server: Synchronize your SVC cluster with a specific NTP server: | Code Block |
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| svctask chcluster -ntpip <IP address of NTP Server> |
Adjust SVC cluster time zone: Set the time zone of your SVC cluster with: | Code Block |
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| svctask settimezone -timezone 360 |
Show SVC clock settings: Check the current time setting on your SVC: | Code Block |
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| The SVC performance statistics are generated regularly (in intervals) by the SVC and picked up by the BVQ SVC Scanner. BVQ supports all intervals possible in the SVC (1min to 60min). We recommend to set the time interval to 1 minute.
Check statistics status and frequency: Use this command to see if and how often your system collects statistics: | Code Block |
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| svcinfo lssystem | while read key value; do [[ "$key" =~ ^(statistics_status|statistics_frequency)$ ]]&& echo "$key $value"; done |
Enable statistics collection: Activate collection of system statistics: | Code Block |
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| statistics_status on |
Set statistics collection frequency: Define how frequently the system collects statistics: | Code Block |
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| startstats -interval 1 |
Start statistics collection: Begin collecting system statistics at your defined frequency: | Code Block |
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| svctask startstats -interval 1 |
Clear I/O statistics dumps: Clean old I/O statistics data from all nodes in the SVC with this command: | Code Block |
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| svcinfo lsnode -nohdr | while read id rest ; do svctask cleardumps -prefix /dumps/iostats $id ; done |
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