Does DX UIM support monitoring Dell EMC Unity 850F Series Storage

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)
• CA Unified Infrastructure Management On-Premise (Nimsoft / UIM)
• CA Unified Infrastructure Management SaaS (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

We need to monitor the Dell EMC Unity 850F Series Storage and we try to use the vnxe probe, but it brings little data. Is there any prediction of a probe compatible with this equipment?

Environment

• Release: 20.4

Resolution

Dell EMC Unity 850F Series Storage is not currently tested nor supported.

Options:

1. SNMP Device Self-Certification process

• You can use the device self-certification process to obtain any/all metrics included with the relevant DELL MIBs.
• Please refer to the techdocs:
  https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/it-operations-management/ca-unified-infrastructure-management-probes/GA/monitoring/networking-infrastructure/snmpcollector-snmp-data-monitoring/snmp-device-self-certification.html

2. vnxe_monitor

• The vnxe_monitor probe has not been upgraded since 2018, but the last version did support EMC Unity Storage Servers, but only up to 650F.
• Dell EMC unity 300, 400, 500, 600 and 350F to 650F storage server series are supported with vnxe_monitor probe 1.03.

3. Enhancement Request

You may consider entering an enhancement request (Idea), using the link below:
How to raise an enhancement request for DX UIM

4. snmpget

If its a fairly smaller set/subset of Key Performance Indicators and they are available in the MIBs/OIDs, then you can use the snmpget probe, but a lot of the work is manual, yet fairly easy, just not as flexible as snmpcollector.

5. snmptd (traps)

For hardware traps you would need to use snmptd the probe and obtain the relevant MIBs for the traps you would like to send.

If it can wait, you can enter an enhancement request for vnxe_monitor, and get others to vote it up, but depending on features/priorities, an updated vnxe_monitor version could take months.

Additional Information

In summary, the quickest option, aside from entering an enhancement, is to use the snmpcollector Device Self-Certification process for more comprehensive monitoring.