Dell EMC VNX series provide file only, block only, and unified (block and file) implementations. All these implementations can be monitored in / by the Sentry Software's KMs (EMC Disk Arrays KM for PATROL and Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL).
The EMC Disk Arrays KM leverages a standalone SMI-S provider to collect block information (SAN monitoring) and the SMI-S provider embedded within the Control Station to collect file information (NAS monitoring). Depending on the version of the standalone EMC SMI-S provider, you may have to use both Hardware Sentry KM and EMC Disk Arrays KM to fully monitor your Dell EMC VNX Storage Systems:
Monitoring Scenarios | Requirements | Sentry’s
KMs | Metrics
Collected |
NAS monitoring only | SMI-S Provider embedded within Control Station enabled | EMC Disk Arrays KM | Hardware and storage metrics |
SAN monitoring only | If using EMC SMI-S Agent v4.6 | EMC Disk Arrays KM | Hardware and storage metrics |
If not using, EMC SMI-S Agent v4.6,use EMC Navisphere CLI | Hardware Sentry KM | Hardware metrics only |
Both SAN and NAS monitoring | NAS monitoring: SMI-S Provider embedded within Control Station enabled SAN monitoring: EMC SMI-S Agent v4.6 | EMC Disk Arrays KM for PATROL | Hardware and storage metrics |
NAS monitoring: SMI-S Provider embedded within Control Station enabled | EMC Disk Arrays KM for PATROL | NAS monitoring: Hardware and storage metrics |
SAN monitoring: If not using, EMC SMI-S Agent v4.6, use EMC NaviSphere CLI | Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL | SAN monitoring: Hardware metrics only |
For more details about the configurations you may encounter and the monitoring environment you need to configure to properly monitor your Dell EMC VNX disk arrays, please refer to the KB article Monitoring VNX Disk Arrays published on Sentry's Website.
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