monitoring SAN on C7000 blade HP

[programmeheure]

Dear all,

I'm new under cacti and monitoring.
I have an issue with monitoring SAN on server blade HP in a c7000 with cacti.

in a c7000 HP enclosure, i've some blade server call "devices bays" in the 'hp bladesystem onboard administrator'.
this devices bays are connect to some "interconnect bays".
this interconnect bays provide extrenal connexions SAN or la depending on the kind of the interconnect bay.
i've two kind of card:
-one for the LAN: HP 1/10Gb VC-Enet Module (6card)
- one for the SAN : HP 4Gb VC-FC Module (2cards)

the server i want to monitor is linked to two HP 1/10Gb VC-Enet Module (bay 1 and bay2 on port 8 ) for the LAN), and two HP 4Gb VC-FC Module (bay 2 and bay4 on port 8 ) according to virtual connect.

to monitor LAN i enter the @IP of bay 1 or 2 in cacti.
cacti automaticaly find the list of port of the choosen bay.
i tick the port 8 and i have my graph.

the issue it's that don't work with the SAN side:
i enter the @IP of bay 3 or 4 but cacti don't make me automaticaly the list of the port of the choosen card.
so i don't know how to monitor the SAN side of only one server!

if i monitor the port of the switch fabric at witch is attache my san card (bay 3 or 4) i can't have the traffic of only one server, because these san cards are shared betwen sevreal blade server, so this traffic doesn't really interest me.

if someone who have ever made that kind of monitoring could help me, cause i'm really blocked on this issue, and HP support doesn't support monitoring :/

thanks

[programmeheure]

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[mkalle]

if you cant pull the data through snmp(or another kind of script) cacti cant help you.

[TheWitness]

Typically, SAN FC cards report their throughput information via network interfaces, although historically not 64bit, which is a problem. However, this is not universal. Some vendors provide snmp sub-agents that provide per host statistics.

However, if you want to know about things like I/O wait, CPU, Memory, Power Supply Status, Temperatures, and disk throughput on the controller, you have to talk directly to it.

Some vendors have been historically weak at providing access to this information. I guess you need to perform the research and have that support contract open to see if you can get the vendor to help you 'get' the data.

TheWitness