Introduction
Converged infrastructure stacks like FlexPod for VMware represent a new standard in the delivery of IT services—a complete data center in a box. FlexPod is a pre-integrated, pre-tested, and best-of-breed set of IT solutions that accelerate private cloud implementation, reduce total cost of ownership (TCO), and increase business agility.
Nimsoft Monitor for FlexPod is the first solution to offer comprehensive, integrated monitoring coverage of all elements of the FlexPod platform. Nimsoft Monitor for FlexPod tracks all the physical, virtual, and application elements of FlexPod cloud environments. Further, it provides sophisticated monitoring while streamlining administration—offering automated discovery, configuration, and monitoring. As a result, Nimsoft Monitor enables you to get the monitoring insights you need to quickly respond to outages, and even prevent them from happening in the first place. With these unified monitoring capabilities, Nimsoft Monitor enables enterprises and service providers to take full advantage of their FlexPod investments.
This document defines the best practices for monitoring FlexPod platforms with Nimsoft Moniitor, outlining how to set up key alarms and establish appropriate baseline thresholds. It is not intended to provide a complete list of all the elements the solution can monitor and collect. This document is organized by the major components that exist within a FlexPod platform and includes monitoring information for both hardware and software.
Nimsoft Monitor for FlexPod includes the following probes:
- CDM (CPU, Disk, Memory) Probe (cdm)
- Cisco Monitor Probe (cisco_monitor)
- Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Probe (cisco_ucs)
- NetApp Storage (netapp)
- Interface Traffic Probe (interface_traffic)
- Processes Probe (processes)
- Cisco NX-OS Probe (cisco_nxos) and other SNMP Probes (snmptoolkit, snmpget)
- SQL Server Probe (sql_server)
- VMware Probe (vmware)
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