EMC VNX Storage Configuration

Configuring EMC VNX

Like EMC Clarion, FortiSIEM uses Navisec CLI to discover the device and to collect performance metrics. The only difference is that a slightly different command and XML formatted output is used.

Protocol	Information Discovered	Metrics collected	Used for
Navisec CLI	Host name, Operating system version, Hardware model, Serial number, Network interfaces* Installed Software, Storage Controller Ports Hardware components: Enclosures, Fan, Power Supply, Link Control Card, CPU, Disk Storage Pools, RAID Groups and the assigned disks LUNs and LUN -> Storage Pool and RAID Group mappings Storage Groups and memberships (Host, Port, LUN)	Processor utilization: SP Name, Read request rate (IOPS), Write request rate (IOPS), Read volume (KBps), Write volume (KBps), Read/Write request rate (IOPS), Read/Write volume (KBps) Storage Pool I/O: RAID Group id, RAID type, Total disk, Read request rate (IOPS), Write request rate (IOPS), Read volume (KBps), Write volume (KBps), Read/Write request rate (IOPS), Read/Write volume (KBps)	Availability and Performance Monitoring
		LUN I/O: LUN name, LUN id, Total disk, Used disk, Free disk, Disk util, Read request rate (IOPS), Write request rate (IOPS), Read volume (KBps), Write volume (KBps), Read/Write request rate (IOPS), Read/Write volume (KBps) Host HBA Connectivity: Source IP, Source Name, Source WWN, Dest IP, Destination Name, SP Port Name, Storage Group, LUN Names, Login Status, Registration Status Host HBA Unregistered Host: Source IP, Source Name, Source WWN, Dest IP, Destination Name, SP Port Name Hardware component health: Component name (Disk, Power supply, LCC, Fan, Link, Port), Component status, Host spare ready disk count Overall Disk health: Total disk count, Total disk size (MB), Active disk count, Failed disk count, Spare disk count

Configuration

Installing the NaviSecCLI Library in FortiSIEM

Changing NaviSecCLI Credentials

If you change the NaviSecCLI credentials on your EMC Clarion device, the certificates may also be changed and naviseccli may prompt you to accept new certificates. This should only happen the first time after a certificate change, however, FortiSIEM discovery and performance monitoring will fail. You must run NaviSecCLI manually on each Supervisor and Worker in your deployment and accept the certificate, and then rediscover your EMC Clarion device for performance monitoring to resume.

Configuration of your EMC Clarion storage device involves installing EMC's NaviSecCLI library in your FortiSIEM virtual appliance, and then setting the access credentials that the appliance will use to communicate with your device.

1. Log in to your FortiSIEM virtual appliance as root.
2. Copy the file NaviCLI-Linux-64-x86-versionxyz.rpm to the FortiSIEM directory.
3. Run rpm --Uvh NaviCLI-Linux-64-x86-versionxyz.rpm to install the rpm package.

   [root@Rob-SP-94 tmp]# rpm -Uvh NaviCLI-Linux-64-x86-en_US-7.30.15.0.44-1.x86_64.rpm
   Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
   1:NaviCLI-Linux-64-x86-en########################################### [100%]
   Please enter the verifying level(low|medium|l|m) to set?
   m
   Setting medium verifying level
   [root@Rob-SP-94 opt]# ls -la
   total 40
   drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Aug 22 16:06 .
   drwxr-xr-x 29 root root 4096 Aug 16 16:46 ..
   drwxr-xr-x 11 admin admin 4096 Jul 23 18:56 glassfish
   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Aug 16 16:46 Java -> /opt/jdk1.6.0_32
   drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Jun 2 16:35 jdk1.6.0_32
   drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Aug 22 16:06 Navisphere <----Note this directory was created***
   drwxrwxr-x 14 admin admin 4096 Jul 24 11:22 phoenix
   drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 2 16:36 rpm
   drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Jun 18 2010 vmware
   [root@Rob-SP-94 opt]#

4. Change the user role to the admin su - admin and make sure that the user can run the command naviseccli -h -User <user> -Password <pwd> -Scope global getall -sp from the directory /opt/phoenix/bin .

   [root@Rob-SP-94 Navisphere]# cd bin
   [root@Rob-SP-94 bin]# su - admin
   [admin@Rob-SP-94 ~]$ naviseccli
   Not enough arguments
   Usage:
   [-User <username>] [-Password <password>]
   [-Scope <0 - global; 1 - local; 2 - LDAP>]
   [-Address <IPAddress | NetworkName> | -h <IPAddress | NetworkName>]
   [-Port <portnumber>] [-Timeout <timeout> | -t <timeout>]
   [-AddUserSecurity | -RemoveUserSecurity | -DeleteSecurityEntry]
   [-Parse | -p] [-NoPoll | -np] [-cmdtime]
   [-Xml] [-f <filename>] [-Help] CMD <Optional Arguments>[security -certificate]
   [admin@Rob-SP-94 ~]$ pwd
   /opt/phoenix/bin

5. Make sure that the Navisphere Analyzer module is on.
   If the module is off, performance metrics will not be available and discovery will fail. This log shows an example of the module being turned off.

   [admin@accelops ~]$ naviseccli -user admin -password admin*1 -scope 0 -h 192.168.1.100 getall -sp
   Server IP Address:       192.168.1.100
   Agent Rev:           7.32.26 (0.95)
   SP Information
   --------------
   Storage Processor:                  SP A
   Storage Processor Network Name:     A-IMAGE
   Storage Processor IP Address:       192.168.1.100
   Storage Processor Subnet Mask:      255.255.255.0
   Storage Processor Gateway Address:  192.168.1.254
   Storage Processor IPv6 Mode:               Not Supported
   Management Port Settings:
   Link Status:                        Link-Up
   Current Speed:                      1000Mbps/full duplex
   Requested Speed:                    Auto
   Auto-Negotiate:                     YES
   Capable Speeds:                     1000Mbps half/full duplex
                                       10Mbps half/full duplex
                                       100Mbps half/full duplex
                                       Auto
   System Fault LED:              OFF
   Statistics Logging:            OFF    <----- Note: performance statistics are not being collected
                                         <------ so AccelOp can not pull stats and discovery will fail.
                                         <------ See how to turn ON Statistics Logging below.
   SP Read Cache State            Enabled
   SP Write Cache State           Enabled
   ....

6. If the Navisphere Analyzer module is off, turn it on with the setstats -on command.

   [admin@accelops ~]$ naviseccli -user admin -password admin*1 -scope 0 -h 192.168.1.100 setstats -on
   [admin@accelops ~]$ naviseccli -user admin -password admin*1 -scope 0 -h 192.168.1.100 getall -sp
   
   Server IP Address:       192.168.1.100
   Agent Rev:           7.32.26 (0.95)
    
   SP Information
   --------------
   Storage Processor:                  SP A
   Storage Processor Network Name:     A-IMAGE
   Storage Processor IP Address:       192.168.1.100
   Storage Processor Subnet Mask:      255.255.255.0
   Storage Processor Gateway Address:  192.168.1.254
   Storage Processor IPv6 Mode:               Not Supported
   Management Port Settings:
   Link Status:                        Link-Up
   Current Speed:                      1000Mbps/full duplex
   Requested Speed:                    Auto
   Auto-Negotiate:                     YES
   Capable Speeds:                     1000Mbps half/full duplex
                                       10Mbps half/full duplex
                                       100Mbps half/full duplex
                                       Auto
   System Fault LED:              OFF
   Statistics Logging:            ON   <---NOTE that statistics Logging is now ON.
   SP Read Cache State            Enabled
   SP Write Cache State           Enabled
   Max Requests:                  N/A
   Average Requests:              N/A
   Hard errors:                   N/A
   Total Reads:                   1012
   Total Writes:                  8871
   Prct Busy:                     6.98
   Prct Idle:                     93.0
   System Date:                   10/04/2013
   Day of the week:               Friday
   System Time:                   11:23:48
   Read_requests:                 1012
   Write_requests:                8871
   Blocks_read:                   26259
   Blocks_written:                235896
   Sum_queue_lengths_by_arrivals: 27398
   Arrivals_to_non_zero_queue:    3649
   ....

7. Once this command runs successfully, you are ready to set the access credentials for your device in FortiSIEM and initiate the discovery process.

Setting the IP Address for Credential Mapping

Enter the Storage Processor IP address when you associate your device's access credentials to an IP address during the credential set up process. Do not enter any other IP address, such as the Control Station IP.

Settings for Access Credentials

Use these Access Method Definition settings to allow FortiSIEM to access your EMC VNX storage device over NaviSecCLI.

Setting	Value
Name	<set name>
Device Type	EMC VNX
Access Protocol	Navisec CLI
Use LDAP	Select to use LDAP to access directory services
User Name	The user you configured to access NaviSecCLI
Password	The password associated with the user