NetApp StorageGRID

Application Version and Upgrade Details

Introduction

NetApp StorageGRID is a software-defined, object based storage solution that supports industry standard object APIs like the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). It allows you to build a single namespace across up to 16 data centers worldwide, with customizable service levels for metadata-driven object lifecycle policies. The integrated lifecycle management policies optimize where your data lives throughout its lifecycle.

StorageGRID optimizes the durability and availability of your data across multiple geographies. Whether your data is on premises or in a public cloud, it enables hybrid cloud workflows to fit your business demands with access to Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure Blob,Amazon Glacier, Elasticsearch, and similar services.

Key Use cases

Discovery Use cases

• It discovers the NetApp StorageGRID components.
• Publishes relationships between resources to have a topological view and ease of maintenance.

Monitoring Use cases

• Provides metrics related to job scheduling time and status etc..
• Concern alerts will be generated for each metric to notify the administrator regarding the issue with the resource.

Prerequisites

• OpsRamp Classic Gateway 14.0.0 and above.
• OpsRamp NextGen Gateway 14.0.0 and above.
  Note: OpsRamp recommends using the latest Gateway version for full coverage of recent bug fixes, enhancements, etc.
• Provided IpAddress/hostname, Credentials should work for StorageGrid Management REST Apis.

Hierarchy of NetApp StorageGRID resources

    Grid
            - StorageGRID Site
                    - StorageGRID Node
                           - StorageGRID Node Disk
                           - StorageGRID Node Volume
      - StorageGRID Tenant
                    - StorageGRID Bucket

Default Monitoring Configurations

NetApp storageGRID has default Global Device Management Policies, Global Templates, Global Monitors and Global metrics in OpsRamp. You can customize these default monitoring configurations as per your business use cases by cloning respective global templates and global Device Management Policies. OpsRamp recommends performing the below activity before installing the application to avoid noise alerts and data.

1. Default Global Device Management Policies

   OpsRamp has a Global Device Management Policy for each Native Type of NetApp StorageGRID. You can find those Device Management Policies at Setup > Resources > Device Management Policies, search with suggested names in global scope. Each Device Management Policy follows below naming convention:

   {appName nativeType - version}

   Ex: netapp-storagegrid StorageGRID - 1 (i.e, appName = netapp-storagegrid, nativeType =StorageGRID, version = 1)

2. Default Global Templates

   OpsRamp has a Global template for each Native Type of NetApp StorageGRID. You can find those templates at Setup > Monitoring > Templates, search with suggested names in global scope. Each template follows below naming convention:

   {appName nativeType 'Template' - version}

   Ex: netapp-storagegrid StorageGRID Template - 1 (i.e, appName = netapp-storagegrid , nativeType = StorageGRID, version = 1)

3. Default Global Monitors

   OpsRamp has a Global Monitors for each Native Type which has monitoring support. You can find those monitors at Setup > Monitoring > Monitors, search with suggested names in global scope. Each Monitors follows below naming convention:

   {monitorKey appName nativeType - version}

   Ex: Netapp StorageGrid Grid Monitor netapp-storagegrid StorageGRID 1 (i.e, monitorKey = Netapp StorageGrid Grid Monitor, appName = netapp-storagegrid , nativeType = StorageGRID 1 , version= 1)

Configure and Install the NetApp StorageGRID Integration

1. From All Clients, select a client.
2. Go to Setup > Account.
3. Select the Integrations and Apps tab.
4. The Installed Integrations page, where all the installed applications are displayed.
   Note: If there are no installed applications, it will navigate to the ADD APP page.
5. Click + ADD on the Installed Integrations page. The Available Integrations and Apps page displays all the available applications along with the newly created application with the version.
   Note: You can even search for the application using the search option available. Also you can use the All Categories option to search.

6. Click ADD in the NetApp StorageGRID application.
7. In the Configurations page, click + ADD. The Add Configuration page appears.
8. Enter the below mentioned BASIC INFORMATION:

Notes:

• By default the Is Secure checkbox is selected.
• Ip Address/Host Name and Port should be accessible from Gateway.
• Select App Failure Notifications: if turned on, you will be notified in case of an application failure that is, Connectivity Exception, Authentication Exception.

9. Select the below mentioned CUSTOM ATTRIBUTE:

Note: The custom attribute that you add here will be assigned to all the resources that are created by the integration. You can add a maximum of five custom attributes (key and value pair).

10. In the RESOURCE TYPE section, select:
    • ALL: All the existing and future resources will be discovered.
    • SELECT: You can select one or multiple resources to be discovered.
11. In the DISCOVERY SCHEDULE section, select Recurrence Pattern to add one of the following patterns:
    • Minutes
    • Hourly
    • Daily
    • Weekly
    • Monthly
12. Click ADD.

Now the configuration is saved and displayed on the configurations page after you save it.
Note: From the same page, you may Edit and Remove the created configuration.

13. Click NEXT.
14. Below are the optional steps you can perform on the Installation page.

• Under the ADVANCED SETTINGS, Select the Bypass Resource Reconciliation option, if you wish to bypass resource reconciliation when encountering the same resources discovered by multiple applications.

  Note: If two different applications provide identical discovery attributes, two separate resources will be generated with those respective attributes from the individual discoveries.

• Click +ADD to create a new collector by providing a name or use the pre-populated name.

15. Select an existing registered profile.

16. Click FINISH.

The integration is now installed and displayed on the Installed Integration page. Use the search field to find the installed application.

Modify the Configuration

• See Modify an Installed Integration or Application article.

  Note: Select the NetApp StorageGRID application.

View the NetApp StorageGRID details

The discovered resource(s) are displayed in Infrastructure > Resources > Storage, with Native Resource Type as StorageGRID. You can navigate to the Attributes tab to view the discovery details, and Metrics tab to view the metric details for NetApp StorageGRID.

Resource Type Filter Keys

Custom attributes keys

Supported Alert Custom Macros

Customize the alert subject and description with below macros to generate alerts based on customisation. Supported macros keys:

Supported Metrics

Risks, Limitations & Assumptions

• Application can handle Critical/Recovery failure notifications for below two cases when user enables App Failure Notifications in configuration
  • Connectivity Exception
  • Authentication Exception
• Application will not send any duplicate/repeat failure alert notification until the already existing critical alert is recovered.
• Using metrics for monitoring the resources and generating alerts when the threshold values are breached.
• Application cannot control monitoring pause/resume actions based on above alerts.
• No support of showing activity log and applied time.
• This application supports both Classic Gateway and NextGen Gateway.