Assigning data collectors

Assign your data collectors to monitor specific devices.

About this task

You can assign which data collectors collect metadata from your storage devices. For example, you can configure your data collection services as follows:
  • Assign data collectors to devices based on the locations of the data centers.
  • Assign multiple data collectors to devices so that if one data collector fails another data collector takes over.
  • Assign data collectors to groups of devices to optimize and balance how metadata is collected.
Tip: All data collectors are available to monitor all devices by default. If you turn off the feature, all data collectors are automatically set to monitor all devices.

Procedure

To assign data collectors to devices, complete the following steps:

  1. In the menu bar, click Configuration and then click Data Collectors.
  2. Click Assignments.
    The first time that you view the Assignments tab, you are provided with the capability to turn on Manage the assignments between data collectors and devices.
  3. To assign or unassign data collectors to a device, you select or deselect the individual data collectors in the row for the device.
    By default all data collectors are assigned to all devices.
    Important:
    • If you deselect all data collectors for a device, metadata will not be collected for that device.
    • If you switch between manual and automatic assignments frequently, your manual assignments might be reset and need to be set again.

Example

Watch a short video about assigning data collectors to monitor specific devices.