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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| Create a BVQ user on the SVC system| Expand |
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| For communication between a SVC system and BVQ, a user account with at least user group 'Monitor' is required on each SVC system. | Code Block |
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| svctask mkuser -name bvq -usergrp Monitor -password <my_secure_password> |
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| Check if an NTP server is configured: it is mandatory to use NTP to synchronize the time of all systems (SVC Systems and BVQ Server): | 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 |
Change statistics collection frequency: Define how frequent the system collects statistics: | Code Block |
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| startstats -interval <interval_in_minutes> |
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