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Contents Chapter 1: clariion General Overview 7 Chapter 2: Requirements 9 Hardware Requirements... 9 Software Requirements... 9 Supported Platforms... 9 Chapter 3: Considerations 11 Installation Considerations... 11 General Use Considerations... 11 Chapter 4: Revision History 11 Contents 5
Chapter 1: clariion General Overview EMC Clariion storage systems represent a critical infrastructure component. The clariion probe monitors the EMC Clariion CX4 storage systems. Using Navisphere CLI, the probe provides extensive availability and performance metrics. Chapter 1: clariion General Overview 7
Chapter 2: Requirements This section lists hardware and software requirements for the probe, and supported platforms. This section contains the following topics: Hardware Requirements (see page 9) Software Requirements (see page 9) Supported Platforms (see page 9) Hardware Requirements None. Software Requirements Robot 6.5 or later Java 1.6 or later Navisphere CLI Clariion CX4-480 Supported Platforms Refer to the Compatibility Support Matrix for the latest information about supported platforms. See also the Support Matrix for Probes for more specific information about the probe. Chapter 2: Requirements 9
Chapter 3: Considerations This section describes installation and general use considerations for the clariion probe. This section contains the following topics: Installation Considerations (see page 11) General Use Considerations (see page 11) Installation Considerations Navisphere CLI must be installed on the same system as the clariion probe. Clariion CX4-480 is a prerequisite. General Use Considerations None. Chapter 4: Revision History Chapter 3: Considerations 11
General Use Considerations This section describes the history of the revisions for this probe. Date Description State Version October 2014 Fixed a defect where the Source Override feature was not working properly. (Salesforce Case: 00099959) GA 1.64 Added support for VNX and VNX2. Certified the probe for: VNX Models:VNX5300 and VNX5700 VNX2 Models: VNX5400 and VNX8000 Added three new LUN metrics: LUN Response Time, LUN Service Time and LUN Queue Length. Added five new SP metrics: Utilization, Total IOPs, AverageBusyQueueLength, Service Time and Response Time. Added three new SPE metrics: Management Modules, IOModules and Standby Power Supplies. Added two new DAE metrics: Link Control Cards and Fans. Certain metric names have been changed to achieve consistency in the way CA UIM reports metrics vs. EMC. July 2014 Fixed a defect where the Infrastructure Manager (IM) GUI was not able to fetch and display the profile information when the probe was opened from a remote machine. January 2014 Fixed the defect of not displaying the disk metrics for a LUN. The metrics were available at device itself but not for the LUNs, where are built from a pool. Now, the probe displays all disk metrics for LUN also. December 2012 Fixed the defect of passing the Test button even when the NaviSecCli command fails. Now, the probe fails the subsequent commands and the Test button when the NaviSecCli command fails. Fixed the defect of not reflecting the updated message severity, when the Clariion system is not responding. Now, the probe shows the updated message details when details are updated in the message pool irrespective of the Clariion status. Fixed Disk State for hot spare drives; now reports "Hot Spare Ready". Upgrading the probe to the 1.6 version overwrites the existing (incorrect) Disk State configuration. GA 1.62 1.61 GA 1.60 12 clariion Release Notes
General Use Considerations Date Description State Version November 2012 Added default templates. Beta 1.60 Added simulation mode using recorded data. Fixed parsing issue with some VNX naviseccli output. Fixed null pointer exception when parsing info about removed drives. Added check to avoid re-sending alarms for old Clariion logs at probe startup. Added metrics for Thin LUN IOPS, Throughput. Fixed incorrect Empty disk status on last non-empty drive. September 2011 Certification on VNX hardware platform. GA 1.50 August 2011 Added usage metering metrics and CIs. Fixed major defects. May 2011 Added code to process CI metrics. 1.30 March 2011 New metric for Disk State. New relay to convert CLARiiON Events to NMS alarms. Use bundled jre package. December 2010 GA version of the probe. 1.10 December 2010 Fixed a problem with enabling monitors using only the checkbox. December 2010 Added support for templates. Added new Thin Pool metrics, including Percent Full, Percent Available, Percent Subscribed, Consumed Capacity, and User Capacity. Added new RAID Group Percent Free metric. Added new LUN metrics, including Currently Trespassed and Trespasses (Past Hour). Added new Mirror View State metric. Added new FAST Cache category with metrics for Mode, Percent Dirty (SP A & SP B), Size, and State. Added a checkbox to enable or disable relaying CLARiiON faults as Alarms. 1.40 1.20 1.04 1.03 Chapter 4: Revision History 13
General Use Considerations Date Description State Version November 2010 Added configurable scope to probe GUI. 1.02 Updated thin pool processing for FLARE 30. Made scope configurable for navicli commands. October 2010 Initial version of the probe. 1.00 14 clariion Release Notes