NetApp Filer

Introduction

NetApp Filers is a high-performance, mission critical product used by large enterprises and service providers.

OpsRamp monitors NetApp Filer using SNMP and the NetApp API.

Prerequisites

Transport Layer Security (TLS) must be enabled on the NetApp Filer.

To check the TLS status:

SSH username@hostname
system services web show

If TLS is not enabled: tls.enable on

Example output:

External Web Services: true
               Status: online
   HTTP Protocol Port: 80
  HTTPS Protocol Port: 443
        TLSv1 Enabled: true
        SSLv3 Enabled: true
        SSLv2 Enabled: true

Supported Metrics

Create a credential

1. From All Clients, choose a client.

2. Go to Setup > Accounts > Clients.

3. In the client Credentials tab, add the credential information. Credential settings include:

   • Type: NetApp

   • Use Password Vault: If enabled, specify Policy Mapping, otherwise, enter a password:

     • Policy mapping enables integration of a Password Manager application with credentials.
     • Password is the authentication password to access a resource.

   • Port:

     • For HTTP, use port 80.
     • For HTTPS, select Is Secure and use port 443.

Configure and install the integration

1. From All Clients, select a client.
2. Navigate to Setup > Account.
3. Select the Integrations and Apps tab.
4. The Installed Integrations page, where all the installed applications are displayed. If there are no installed applications, it will navigate to the Available Integrations and Apps page.
5. Click + ADD on the Installed Integrations page. The Available Integrations and Apps page displays all the available applications along with the newly created application with the version.
   Note: Search for the application using the search option available. Alternatively, use the All Categories option to search.

6. Click ADD in the NetApp Filer application.
7. In the Configuration page, enter the below information:

8. In the FILTER BY RESOURCE TYPE section, select:

   • ALL: All the existing and future resources will be discovered.
   • SELECT: You can select one or multiple resources to be discovered.
   • Enter the Key, Operator, and Value information.

9. In the RESOURCE TYPE section, select:

   • ALL: All the existing and future resources will be discovered.
   • SELECT: You can select one or multiple resources to be discovered.

10. From the Perform Actions section, choose Manage Device to set the resources as managed.

11. In the DISCOVERY SCHEDULE section, select recurrence pattern to add one of the following patterns:

    • Minutes
    • Hourly
    • Daily
    • Weekly
    • Monthly

12. (Optional) Under the ADVANCED SETTINGS, Select the Bypass Resource Reconciliation option, if you wish to bypass resource reconciliation when encountering the same resources discovered by multiple applications.

    Note: If two different applications provide identical discovery attributes, two separate resources will be generated with those respective attributes from the individual discoveries.

13. Click NEXT.

14. (Optional) Click +ADD to create a new collector by providing a name or use the pre-populated name.

15. Select an existing registered profile, and click FINISH.

The application is now installed and displayed on the INSTALLED INTEGRATIONS page. Use the search field to find the installed application.

16. (Optional), Select the NetApp Filer Integration.
17. (Optional), Click the ellipses and choose the View resources option.

View the NetApp Filer details

The NetApp Filer integration is displayed in the Infrastructure > Resources > Storage > NetApp Filer. You can navigate to the Attributes tab to view the discovery details, and the Metrics tab to view the metric details for NetApp Filer.

View resource metrics

To confirm NetApp Filer resource monitoring, review the following:

• Metric graphs: A graph is plotted for each metric that is enabled in the configuration.
• Alerts: Alerts are generated for metrics that are configured as defined for integration.