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Infrastructure Change Analysis

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Infrastructure Change Analysis provide you with an all-in-one view of recent changes to the infrastructure (storage, switch, etc.) in your environment. With Change Analysis, you can track configuration changes and drill into issues both expected and unexpected.

How does Infrastructure Change Analysis help?

In any environment, changes to your resources may happen because of mis-configured changes, power loss, etc. Change Analysis helps by providing a single pane to view and correlate the health of your resources with outages or planned changes. Changes are calculated with each inventory poll (following the first poll on a new collector).

To analyze Infrastructure Changes, navigate to Observability > Change Analysis. Alerts and Configuration changes for the current time range are listed. Alert rows show the current alert status (active or resolved).

You can also navigate to a landing page for a resource. If changes have occurred to that recource or related resources, these will be shown in the Expert View section of the page. Zoom in to investigate individual changes, or leave the view wide to see all changes within the selected time range. Hovering over a change will give you a summary of the change. Clicking on that change will focus the expert view on the time of that change.

Change Analysis on a landing page

Selecting an item in the list will open a slideout pane giving more detail about the alert or change.

Filtering

As with all features of Cloud Insights, filtering the change list is intuitive: at the top of the page, you can filter for specific asset types (Triggered On:type), and/or filter for only assets with specific names if desired (Triggered On:name), or add your own filters by selecting the {+] button.

Infrastructure Change Filtering Drop-Down

You can also go directly to key Alerts or Changes from the status section below the filter settings, including the current top three resources with the most alerts.

status and quick links to alerts and changes

Which Objects are analyzed for changes?

The following table lists the objects and attributes included in infrastructure change analysis.

Object Type

Attributes

Disk

diskSize.total
isVirtual
diskGroup
speed
type
location
serialNumber
role
status
vendor
model
storage.name
storagePools.name
name
isEncrypted

Storage

family
ip
isActive
microcodeVersion
model
name
protocols
serialNumber
vendor

StorageNode

name
storage.name
nodeVersion
model
serialNumber
numberOfProcessors
state
partner.name
cache
memory
managementIpAddresses
parentSerialNumber
siteName

StoragePool

name
type
isAutoTiering
isVirtual
redundancy
vendorTier
usesFlashPools
storage.vendor
storage.ip
storage.model
storage.family
storage.name
storageNodes.name
capacity.total (dynamic attribute)
isCompactionSavingsEnabled
isEncrypted
objectStoreName
objectStoreProviderType
objectStoreSizeLimit
objectStoreTieringFullnessThreshold
objectStoreS3Name
objectStoreServer

Qtree

type
securityStyle
isOplocksEnabled
shares.name
storage.name
internalVolume.name
storageVirtualMachine.name
simpleName
statusText
name

StorageVirtualMachine

name
storage.name
state
type
ipSpace
protocols
internalVolumeLimit

Volume

name
simpleName
label
type
storage.name
storage.vendor
storage.ip
storage.model
storage.family
isAutoTiering
isThinProvisioned
diskGroup
isMainframe
isMeta
isReplicaSource
isReplicaTarget
isSnapshot
isVirtual
internalVolume.name
internalVolume.virtualStorage
storageNodes.name
storageNodes.partner.name
storagePools.name
storageVirtualMachine.name
storageGroups
isEncrypted
isCompressionEnabled
qosBurstIOPS
qosLimitIOPS
qosLimitMBPS
qosMinIOPS
qosPolicy
qosLimitRaw

InternalVolume

flashPoolEligibility
name
simpleName
spaceGuarantee
status
type
virtualStorage
replicaSources.name
storageNodes.name
storageNodes.partner.name
storage.name
storage.vendor
storage.ip
storage.model
storage.family
storageVirtualMachine.name
storagePool.name
capacity.isThinProvisioned
qosPolicy
qosLimitRaw
qosLimitIOPS
qosLimitMBPS
isEncrypted
adaptiveQosPolicy
junctionPath
objectStoreTieringPolicy
tieringMinimumCoolingDays

VirtualMachine

name
dnsName
ip
os
memory
processors
guestState
powerState
host.name
host.clusterName
host.ip
host.os
dataStore.name
instanceType
publicIps
securityGroups
virtualCenterIp

DataStore

name
virtualCenterIp
type

Host

name
model
ip
isActive
os
manufacturer
cpuCount
memory
isHypervisor
clusterName
virtualCenterIp

vmdk(VirtualMachineDisk)

name
type
dataStore.name
isRdm
virtualMachine.host.name
virtualMachine.name
isSnapshot

Port

name
isActive
wwn
type
portIndex
blade
speed
gbicType
connectedPorts.device.name
connectedPorts.device.type
connectedPorts.name
connectedPorts.nodeWwn
connectedPorts.wwn
controller
device.name
device.type
fabrics.name
fabrics.vsanId
nodeWwn
description

“Change Analysis” tracks alerts for the following cases:

  • Alerts from log monitors on the log types of logs.vmware.events and logs.netapp.ems.

  • Alerts from metric monitors on the above object types; these must be selected in the Group By field in order for Change Analysis to track them.