EMC Isilon data source

The Isilon SSH data source collects inventory and performance from EMC Isilon scale-out NAS storage.

Terminology

OnCommand Insight acquires the following inventory information from the EMC Isilon data source. For each asset type acquired by Insight, the most common terminology used for this asset is shown. When viewing or troubleshooting this data source, keep the following terminology in mind:

Vendor/Model Term	Insight Term
Drive	Disk
Cluster	Storage
Node	Storage Node
File System	Internal Volume

Note: These are common terminology mappings only and might not represent every case for this data source.

Requirements

Administrator permissions to the Isilon storage
Validated access by using telnet to port 22

Configuration

Field	Description
IP address	The IP address or fully-qualified domain name of the Isilon cluster
User name	The user name for the Isilon cluster
Password	The password for the Isilon cluster

Advanced configuration

Field	Description
Inventory Poll Interval (min)	Interval between inventory polls (default 20 minutes)
Performance Poll Interval (sec)	Interval between performance polls (default 300 seconds)
SSH Process Wait Timeout	SSH process timeout (default 60 seconds)
SSH Port	SSH service port

Running CLI Commands

Starting with OnCommand Insight version 7.3.11 and Service Pack 9, the EMC Isilon data source contains an enhancement that will result in Insight running more CLI commands. If you are using a non-root user within your data source, you will likely have configured a "sudoers" file to grant that user account the ability to run specific CLI commands via SSH.

In order for Insight to understand EMC's "Access Zones" feature, Insight will now additionally run the following new CLI commands:

sudo isi zone zones list --format json –verbose
sudo isi zone zones list

Insight parses the output of these commands, and runs more instances of existing commands, to obtain the logical configuration of objects like qtrees, quotas and NAS shares/exports that reside in non-default Access Zones. Insight now reports those objects for non-default Access Zones as the result of this enhancement. As Insight obtains that data by running existing commands (with different options) no sudoers file change is required in order for those to work; it is only with the introduction of the new commands above that the change is required.

Please update your sudoers file to allow your Insight service account to run those commands before upgrading to this Insight release. Failure to do so will result in your Isilon data sources failing.