eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by NetCluFcpSvcTest

The fcp family of commands manages the Fibre Channel Target adapters and the FCP target protocol. These commands can start and stop FCP target service, bring target adapter ports up and down, show protocol statistics, and list client adapters connected to the controller on the target NetApp Cluster. If the FCP service is stopped or is currently not available, then all FC ports on the NetApp Cluster are disabled, thus leading to ramification of the HA pairs during cluster failover. For example, if you stop the FCP service on System 1, and System 2 fails over, then System 1 will be unable to service the LUNs of System 2. On the other hand, if System 2 fails over, and you stop the FCP service on System 2 and start the FCP service on System 1, System 1 will successfully service the LUNs of System 2. It is therefore imperative to monitor the status of the FCP service so that any glitch to service the data during cluster failover can be proactively avoided. This test helps you achieve this!

This test reports the availability of the FCP service and proactively alerts the administrators of possible problems if the FCP service is not available.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Availability Indicates whether/not this FCP service is currently available.   The values that this measure can report and their corresponding numeric values have been listed in the table below.
Measure Value Numeric Value
Available 0
Unavailable 1

Note:

By default, this measure reports the above-mentioned Measure Values while indicating whether this FCP service is available or not. However, in the graph of this measure, states will be represented using the corresponding numeric equivalents i.e., 0 or 1.