EMC Centera Uptime Test

In most production environments, it is essential to monitor the uptime of critical systems in the infrastructure. By tracking the uptime of each of the systems, administrators can determine what percentage of time a system has been up. Comparing this value with service level targets, administrators can determine the most trouble-prone areas of the infrastructure. In some environments, administrators may schedule periodic reboots of their systems. By knowing that a specific system has been up for an unusually long time, an administrator may come to know that the scheduled reboot task is not working on a system.

This test included in the eG agent monitors the uptime of the target EMC Centera.

Target of the test : An EMC Centera storage system.

Agent deploying the test : A remote agent

Outputs of the test : One set of result for target storage system

Configurable parameters for the test

Parameter	Description
Test period	How often should the test be executed.
Host	The host for which the test is to be configured.
Port	The port number at which the specified host listens. By default, this is NULL.
User and Password	In order to monitor an EMC Centera Storage, the eG agent has to be configured with the credentials of a read only user. Specify the login credentials of such a user in the User and Password text boxes.
Confirm Password	Confirm the password by retyping it here.
CerteraViewer JAR Path	Path of CenteraViewer on agent host. CenteraViewer is installed along with CenteraCLI. By default the installation path is C:\Program Files\EMC\Centera\2_4\SystemOperator\lib\CenteraViewer.jar
Timeout Seconds	Specify the time duration (in seconds) beyond which this test should time out in the TIMEOUT text box. The default is 120 seconds.

Measurements made by the test

Measurement	Description	Measurement Unit	Interpretation
Uptime	Indicates the time since last reboot.	Minutes
Is rebooted	Indicates If the storage has been rebooted.		The Is Rebooted value of 0 indicates that a reboot is due, you may need to plan a reboot soon. The values that this measure can report and their corresponding numeric values are tabulated below: Measure Value Numeric Value No 0 Yes 1 Note: By default, this measure reports the above-mentioned Measure Values while indicating the status. However, in the graph of this measure, the same will be represented using the corresponding numeric equivalents only.