Data Collection Methods

In IBM Storage Insights, you can use both Call Home with cloud services and data collectors as part of your overall monitoring strategy.

But keep in mind the following considerations:

You can use one method to collect metadata for each storage system. If you use a data collector to collect metadata for a storage system, you cannot use Call Home with cloud services for that storage system.
If you have more than one IBM Storage Insights, each service can monitor the same storage system by using different collection methods. You can use Call Home with cloud services to collect metadata on one of those services. If you have three services monitor a storage system, and one service uses Call Home with cloud services, you must use data collectors in the other two services.