vCops for network monitoring?

[ejolaus]

Hi there,

I got recently vCenter Operations Manager and I am playing a little bit around with it. I was wondering if there is any plugin to monitor also the network that the storage and the hosts are connected to (switches, fabrics, etc.).

Is that possible?

Thanks in advance!

[eran23]

Hi

to be able to do a Monitoring of Network Devices you can choose 2 option :

1. have a networking monitoring tool like Solarwind or NNM and build a custom Adapter to pull the data.

2. Build a SNMP Adapter to pull the info from the Network Devices.

Thanks

Eran

[mcowger]

If you have EMC Storage, there are adapters to put that info into vCops.

[ejolaus]

Hi,

Thanks for your answer.

When you say "build" a custom Adapter you mean to programme it? Have you done it before? I am wondering how difficult it is.

[ejolaus]

mcowger,

I am having a look into the Symmetrix Adapter and it seems that it provides only the info that Solutions Enabler does. As far as I know, the SE does not provide info about network devices in the SAN, only the Symmetrix performance information (.ttp file).

[eran23]

Hi

no , there is an snmp adapter that you can use , you just need to configure it to pull the data from the network switches,

i configure this adapter more then a few time,

Thanks

Eran

[ejolaus]

Ah! Ok. Sounds good.

And how does the info look like on vCops later on? Can you select more graphs/metrics?

[mark_j]

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[joeshestak]

I am not promoting any services or product. Just explaining my experience. I posted comments in appropriate questions.