Adding IBM Storage Ceph systems

Before you begin

Before adding the IBM Storage Ceph® systems for monitoring, you must consider the following prerequisites:

Enable Call Home with cloud services in IBM Storage Ceph system. For more information, see Enabling Call Home with cloud services.
Ensure that you are assigned with the Administrator role in IBM Storage Insights. For more information about roles, see Adding and removing users.

About this task

Configure Call Home with cloud services for the IBM Storage Ceph system. For more information, see Enabling Call Home with cloud services. If you configured Call Home with cloud services, you can add IBM Storage Ceph system for monitoring through IBM Storage Insights GUI.

Note:

IBM Storage Insights supports the monitoring of IBM Storage Ceph systems of version 7 or later.
Data collectors are not needed to monitor IBM Storage Ceph systems. IBM Storage Insights communicates directly with IBM Storage Ceph systems through Call Home with cloud services.
Monitoring of IBM Storage Ceph is available only in IBM Storage Insights Pro.

Procedure

To add IBM Storage Ceph systems to IBM Storage Insights, complete the following steps:

Enable Call Home with cloud services and IBM Storage Insights support on the IBM Storage Ceph. For more information, see Enabling Call Home and Enabling IBM Storage Insights support.
After enabling Call Home with cloud services and IBM Storage Insights support on the IBM Storage Ceph system, it can take up to 24 hours for a notification to appear in the IBM Storage Insights user interface. The notification prompts you to add the system to your IBM Storage Insights tenant. You can expedite the notification by running the command ceph callhome send inventory in the IBM Storage Ceph command-line interface after enabling Call Home with cloud services and IBM Storage Insights support on the IBM Storage Ceph system.
Login to IBM Storage Insights GUI and click More details in the notification titled Add Call Home with cloud services device. Alternatively, you can go to Configuration > Call Home Storage Systems page.
Select the device that you want to add for monitoring and click Approve. The device is added to IBM Storage Insights for monitoring.

Results

The device gets added to IBM Storage Insights. To view information about a monitored IBM Storage Ceph system, go to Resources > Unified Storage Systems.