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
- 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
- Open Source Tools
- 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.
