Monitoring the status of data collectors

Monitor the status of the data collectors that are deployed to collect asset, configuration, and performance metadata from the devices in your storage environment.

Using the IBM Storage Insights GUI

You can monitor the status of the data collector by accessing the server or virtual machine where the data collector is installed.

To view the following information about each of your data collectors, go to Configuration > Data Collectors:
  • The status of the connection between the data collector and IBM Storage Insights.
  • The last time that communication occurred between the data collector and IBM Storage Insights.
  • The server or virtual machine on which the data collector is installed.
  • The number of candidate devices that the data collector was assigned to collect metadata from.
  • The number of devices that the data collector is currently monitoring.
  • The number of candidate devices that the data collector cannot reach because of connection issues.

Accessing the server or virtual machine

If you can't access IBM Storage Insights, you can monitor the status of the data collector on the server or virtual machine where it is installed.

To check the status of a data collector, complete the following steps:
  1. Log in to the server or virtual machine where the data collector is deployed.
  2. Depending on the OS of the server, complete the following steps:
    Windows
    1. On the Windows desktop, click the Start menu, type services.msc, and press Enter.
    2. On the Services page, locate the service name that begins with IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights data collector.
    AIX® or Linux®
    1. Open a command shell and go to the data collector directory. The default directory for AIX is DataCollector_aix. The default directory for Linux is DataCollector_linux_ix86.
    2. Type dataCollector.sh status and press Enter.