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.

Create a BVQ user on the system

With SVC CLI:

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System preparation steps

For 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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svctask mkuser -name bvq -usergrp Monitor -password P@ssw0rd

For code level lower than 8.4 use:

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svctask mkuser -name bvq -usergrp Administrator -password P@ssw0rd

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Create a BVQ user on the SVC system

For communication between a SVC system and BVQ, a user account with at least user group 'Monitor' is required on each SVC system.

svctask mkuser -name bvq -usergrp Monitor -password <my_secure_password>

Please check if an NTP server

Check NTP, time and time zone

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Check if an NTP server is configured:

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it is mandatory to use NTP to synchronize the time of all systems (SVC Systems and BVQ Server):

svcinfo lssystem | grep 'ntp_IP_address'

Set your NTP Server: Synchronize your SVC cluster with a specific NTP server:

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Adjust SVC cluster time zone: Set the time zone of your SVC cluster with:

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Show SVC clock settings: Check the current time setting on your SVC:

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Check performance statistics interval

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The SVC performance statistics are generated

regularly

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:

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Enable

Change statistics collection

: Activate collection of system statistics:

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Set statistics collection

frequency: Define how

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statistics

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statistics_frequency 1

Start statistics collection: Begin collecting system statistics at your defined frequency:

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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:

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svcinfo lsnode -nohdr | while read id rest ; do svctask cleardumps -prefix /dumps/iostats $id ; done

are collected:

startstats -interval <interval_in_minutes>

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A user is required for the operation of the BVQ Scanner , who should with at least have Operator Role role permissions.

Please create this user at on your Unity System before the configuration of system prior to configuring the the BVQ Scanner. We recommend to name the user: bvq

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Gather information for BVQ Scanner configuration

BVQ scanners need the following information to be configured for each Dell EMC Unity System:

Cluster IP address or hostname
Cluster user ID and password of the bvq user

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A user with at least 'read-only' role permissions on the ONTAP Cluster is required to operate the BVQ Scanner.

Please create this user prior to configuring the BVQ Scanner.

We recommend using the name 'bvq' for this user.

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Configure a user with minimum role "read_only" and API token on each array.

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Create a BVQ user on the system

With SVC CLI:

System preparation steps

For code level lower than 8.4 use:

Create a BVQ user on the SVC system

Check NTP, time and time zone

Check performance statistics interval

Gather information for BVQ Scanner configuration

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Versions Compared

Old Version 7

New Version Current

Key

System preparation steps

Create a BVQ user on the system

With SVC CLI:

For code level lower than 8.4 use:

Create a BVQ user on the SVC system

Check NTP, time and time zone

Check performance statistics interval

Gather information for BVQ Scanner configuration