Monitoring OpenFiler iSCSI

Tim,

We don't support our agent on OpenFiler, although it seems you are getting information from it. We do not get iSCSI information from Linux at this time, although it is very interesting to us.

Brian

Hi,

Are there any plans to support OpenFiler in Storage Manager, in full or part, as it looks from Tim's post, some monitoring is possible?

While there is a school of thought on this for me, where if there is only a small investment in provisioning a SAN by an organisation, they are unlikely to spend money on a monitoring solution. The flip side of that is that because of the 'parts bin' ethos of the build, monitoring performance is crucial.

Mark

Mark,

No plans for supporting OpenFiler at this time, but that can always change based on user interest.

Are you using OpenFiler to serve files to your environment, or to do shared storage to your Virtual environment?

Brian

We have been starting to see small enterprises either implementing or including OpenFiler as an review option to base virtualisation storage on, as the entry point for SAN hardware makes this cost prohibitive for smaller companies.

While this is our visibility as a SolarWinds partner with our customer base, how many customers either have or are looking at OpenFiler as a low cost SAN/NAS solution that would then want to implement a high quality monitoring platform for this.

As I said before on the face of it, if an organisation is using a low cost option for the SAN itself, does that translate to then not spending money on a monitoring solution?