Administering the collection of metadata for devices

You can start, stop, or reschedule the collection of metadata for devices in IBM Storage Insights.

Actions for administering the collection of metadata for different devices is displayed in the following sections:
Tips:
  • Terminology: Probe tasks collect configuration, capacity, and status metadata about devices. Performance monitor tasks collect performance metadata about devices.
  • Rescheduling data collection for multiple devices: If you select multiple devices and reschedule data collection, the schedule change applies to all of them. To ensure that performance is not adversely affected, the devices are probed at different times during the time span of the schedule.

Collection of metadata for block storage

When you add block storage systems or storage systems that manage block and file storage, you can complete the following actions on the Block Storage Systems page:
Actions Instructions
Check the status of the collection of metadata. This metadata includes performance metadata and the configuration, capacity, and status metadata that is collected by probes.
  1. From the Resources menu, click Block Storage Systems.
  2. Check the value that is shown in the Data Collection column.
Restart collecting performance and probe metadata for the storage system.
  1. From the Resources menu, click Block Storage Systems.
  2. Right-click the storage system and select Data Collection > Restart Data Collection.
Stop collecting performance and probe metadata for the storage system.
  1. From the Resources menu, click Block Storage Systems.
  2. Right-click the storage system and select Data Collection > Stop Data Collection.
Reschedule the collection of performance and probe metadata.
  1. From the Resources menu, click Block Storage Systems.
  2. Right-click the storage system and select Data Collection > Schedule.

Collection of metadata for file and object storage

When you add storage systems that monitor only file storage or only object storage, you can complete the following actions on the File Storage Systems or Object Storage Systems page:
Actions Instructions
Check the status of the collection of metadata. This metadata includes the configuration, capacity, and status metadata that is collected by probes.
  1. From the Resources menu, click File Storage Systems or Object Storage Systems.
  2. Check the value that is shown in the Probe Status column.
Check the status of the collection of performance metadata for IBM Storage Scale System storage systems.
  1. From the Resources menu, click File Storage Systems.
  2. Check the value that is shown in the Performance Monitor Status column.
Restart collecting metadata for the storage system. This metadata includes performance metadata and the configuration, capacity, and status metadata that is collected by probes.
  1. From the Resources menu, click File Storage Systems or Object Storage Systems.
  2. Right-click the storage system and select Data Collection > Restart Data Collection.
Stop collecting performance and probe metadata for the storage system.
  1. From the Resources menu, click File Storage Systems.
  2. Right-click the storage system and select Data Collection > Stop Data Collection.
Reschedule the collection of configuration, capacity, and status metadata. For IBM Storage Scale System storage systems, you can also reschedule the collection of performance metadata.
Restriction: Asset, capacity, and configuration metadata for storage systems that manage both block and file storage, such as Storwize V7000 Unified, is collected daily and cannot be rescheduled.
  1. From the Resources menu, click File Storage Systems or Object Storage Systems.
  2. Right-click the storage system and select Data Collection > Schedule.

Collection of metadata for chassis

When you add fabrics and switches for monitoring, you can complete the following actions on the Fabrics page or the Switches page:
Actions Instructions
Check the status of the collection of configuration and status metadata.
  1. From the Resources menu, click Fabrics or click Switches.
  2. Check the value that is shown in the Data Collection column.
Check the status of the collection of performance metadata.
  1. From the Resources menu, click Switches.
  2. Check the value that is shown in the Data Collection column.
Start the collection of configuration and status metadata.
  1. From the Resources menu, click Switches.
  2. Go to Chassis tab and select the chassis where the fabrics or switches are associated. Right-click a chassis from the list and select Data Collection > Restart Data Collection.
    Tip: You can start or restart the data collection anytime without depending on the status in the Data Collection column.
Stop the collection of configuration and status metadata.
  1. From the Resources menu, click Switches.
  2. Go to Chassis tab and select the chassis where the fabrics or switches are associated. Right-click a chassis from the list and select Data Collection > Stop Data Collection.
    Remember: You can stop collecting the metadata only if the Data Collection column shows the Running status for that chassis.
Reschedule the collection of configuration, and status metadata.
  1. From the Resources menu, click Switches.
  2. Go to Chassis tab and select the chassis where the fabrics or switches are associated. Right-click a chassis from the list and select Data Collection > Schedule.
    Tip: You can schedule the data collection anytime without depending on the status in the Data Collection column.
  3. By default, Enable Probe is checked and the probe schedule is set to Automatically with probe frequency Every day. You can make the necessary changes to the probe schedule as required.

Collection of metadata for hosts

When you add hosts for monitoring, you can complete the following actions on the Hosts page:
Actions Instructions
Check the status of the collection of metadata. This metadata includes the configuration, capacity, and status metadata that is collected by probes.
  1. From the Resources menu, click Hosts.
  2. Check the value that is shown in the Probe Status column.
Check the status of the collection of performance metadata for hosts.
  1. From the Resources menu, click Hosts.
  2. Check the value that is shown in the Performance Monitor Status column.
Check the status of the collection of configuration and status metadata.
  1. From the Resources menu, click Hosts.
  2. Check the value that is shown in the Data Collection column.
Check the status of the collection of performance metadata.
  1. From the Resources menu, click Hosts.
  2. Check the value that is shown in the Data Collection column.
Start the collection of configuration and status metadata.
  1. From the Resources menu, click Hosts.
  2. Right-click on a host from the list and select Data Collection > Restart Data Collection.
    Tip: You can start or restart the data collection anytime without depending on the status in the Data Collection column.
Stop the collection of configuration and status metadata.
  1. From the Resources menu, click Hosts.
  2. Right-click on a host from the list and select Data Collection > Stop Data Collection.
    Remember: You can stop collecting the metadata only if the Data Collection column shows the Running status for that host.
Reschedule the collection of configuration, and status metadata.
  1. From the Resources menu, click Hosts.
  2. Right-click on a host from the list and select Data Collection > Schedule.
    Tip: You can schedule the data collection anytime without depending on the status in the Data Collection column.
  3. By default, Enable Probe is checked and the probe schedule is set to Automatically with probe frequency Every day and monitoring the performance for Every 5 minutes. You can make the necessary changes to the probe schedule as required.