Monitoring and Tools

IBM Spectrum Scale Monitoring and Tools

These are topics and tools that are focused on monitoring and managing an IBM Spectrum Scale cluster.

• IBM Spectrum Scale Tools/Scripts
  • Spectrum Scale Callbacks
  • Collect and process GPFS cluster statistics

  • collect_mmfs_perfdata

  • Display per node GPFS IO statistics
  • HOWTO Gather Heuristics from an Existing GPFS File System
    • This can be used to determine the optimal block size for a new file system
  • perfmon
  • Spectrum Scale GUI
  • View inode cache
  • IBM Spectrum Scale Performance Monitoring Bridge for Grafana
• SNMP Monitoring
  • Article about GPFS SNMP feature
  • Implementing a GPFS HA SNMP configuration using Callbacks

• Open Source Tools
  • Ganglia Tools for GPFS
  • GPFS Current Activity Monitor (BSD Licensed)
  • Nagios tools for Spectrum Scale
• Commercial Tools
  • Arxscan - Provides a good set of storage and data center analytics that include GPFS support and monitoring via mmpmon. Looks at file systems sizes, quotas, filesets. 
  • Galileo Performance Monitor - Monitoring service that includes GPFS monitoring.