Fujitsu Eternus

Introduction

Eternus storage systems is a family of compatible all flash and hybrid storage systems. Eternus AF all flash arrays offer practically unlimited storage performance. Eternus DX hybrid storage systems are designed to store large amounts of unstructured data using cost efficient hard disk capacities while allowing fast access via SSDs. Eternus AF and Eternus DX offer an outstanding family of systems that allow the digital world to achieve the ideal balance between cost , capacity and speed.

Key Use cases

Discovery Use cases

The device discovery enables customers with an unified way of showing all of the elements making up a Eternus storage device along with the relationships.

Monitoring Use cases

The device monitoring helps to collect the metric values with respect to time and sends alerts to the intended customer team to act up immediately in case of any threshold breach or unexpected metric behavior observed based on configurations. In a way it helps the customer with smooth functioning of business with minimal or zero downtime in case of any infrastructure related issues occurring.

Pre-Requisites

The OpsRamp Gateway must be installed.

Hierarchy of Eternus Storage

   Eternus Storage
        - Controller enclosure
        - Front-end enclosure
        - Drive enclosure
        - Disk drive
        - RAID Groups
        - Volume
        - Pool

Configure and install the integration

1. Go to Setup > Integrations and Apps.
2. Click + ADD on the INSTALLED APP page. The ADD APP page displays all the available applications along with the newly created application with the version.
   Notes:
   • If there are already installed applications, it will redirect to the INSTALLED APPS page, where all the installed applications are displayed.
   • If there are no installed applications, it will navigate to the ADD APP page.
   • You can even search for the application using the search option available. Also you can use the All Categories option to search.

3. Click ADD in the Fujitsu ETERNUS application.

4. In the Configurations page, click + ADD. The Add Configuration page appears.
5. Enter the below mentioned BASIC INFORMATION:

Note: App Failure Notifications: if turned on, you will be notified in case of an application failure that is, Connectivity Exception, Authentication Exception.

6. 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.

7. In the DISCOVERY SCHEDULE section, select Recurrence Pattern to add one of the following patterns:

   • Minutes
   • Hourly
   • Daily
   • Weekly
   • Monthly

8. Click ADD.

9. Now the configuration is saved and displayed on the configurations page after you save it. From the same page, you may Edit and Remove the created configuration.

10. Click NEXT.

11. In the Installation page, select an existing registered gateway profile, and click FINISH.

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

Modify the Configuration

• See Modify an Installed Integration or Application article.

  Note: Select the Fujitsu ETERNUS application.

View the Fujitsu Eternus details

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

Supported metrics

Risks, Limitations & Assumptions

• Application can handle Critical/Recovery failure notifications for below two cases when user enables App Failure Notifications in configuration
  • Connectivity Exception
  • Authentication Exception
• Application will not send any duplicate/repeat failure alert notification until the already existed critical alert is recovered.
• OpsRamp has validated this application with an Eternus model which has product code as “ET203 BU” and product name as “Eternus DX200 S3” which belongs to the product family of “Eternus DX.
• No support of showing activity log and applied time.
• No support for the option to get Latest snapshot metric.