What are the ActiveIQ Unified Manager performance counters that can be exported to an External Data Provider?

Counters and Counter Groups:

The performance counters are categorized groups, to facilitate graphing the performance of all the components in ONTAP clusters:

• Node
• Disk
• Aggregate
• Volume 

In general, for each of the available performance objects, the following counter information is provided:

• Industry-standard performance metrics: IOPS, MB/sec, and Response Time
• Industry-standard breakdowns for key metrics: Read/Write/Other, Total vs. Protocol-specific
• Key standard metrics appropriate for the group: Utilization and hit rate

 

To support aggregating (combining counters) and cooking (performing mathematical operations on a counter) counter data, additional information is also collected:

• Object instance identifiers
• Container (also known as aggregated) object instance identifiers
• Supporting values required for cooking (counter type, unit, and base counter for averages)

The use case monitoring category to which each counter belongs:

• [P]erformance Indicator
• [R]esource Utilization
• [D]rilldown Troubleshooting

The value in the 'Category' column in the counter tables (below) reflects the counter category.
The categories correspond to options you can select from Performance Manager when making a connection to an external server:

• Performance Indicator: The performance level (IOPS, Latency) of Logical Object, generally limited to total IOPS or Latency (that is, no Read/Write/Other breakdown, and no Per-Protocol breakdown).
• Resource Utilization: The utilization of Physical Resource.
• Drill-down Troubleshooting: Provides more detail, or breakdowns, for the higherlevel indicators 'P' and 'R'. For example, read/write/other breakdowns and perprotocol breakdowns.

 

Counter Type

The counter 'type' specifies how an external graphing tool should interpret its value.
For example, a delta counter is logically the difference of a value between two points in time. So, for a client tool to display a delta counter, it must get a snapshot of the counter (its raw value) at two points in time and return the difference.

Type	Definition	Calculation
Raw	Means that the counter being exported has no math associated with it.	None
Rate	Means that two samples of this counter have to be taken at two different points in time	(C2 -C1)/(T2 -T1)
Delta	Means that two samples of this counter have to be taken at two different points in time	(C2 - C1)
Average	Means that two samples of this counter and two samples of the base counter  have to be taken at two different points in time	(C2 -C1)/(B2 -B1)
Perct	Means that two samples of this counter and two samples of the base counter have to be taken at two different points in time	(100)*(C2 - C1)/(B2 - B1)
String	Means that the counter is a fixed length string, of a size specified by a counter size flag.	None

The value in the 'Type' column in the counter tables (below) reflects the counter type.
Note: String types will require to be converted to a number.
List of Counters:

 

Aggregate Counters 

Counter Name	Frequency	Type	Units	Base Counter	Category
cp_read_blocks	5m	rate	per_sec		R
cp_reads	5m	rate	per_sec		R
total_transfers	5m	rate	per_sec		R
user_read_blocks	5m	rate	per_sec		R
user_reads	5m	rate	per_sec		R
user_write_blocks	5m	rate	per_sec		R
user_writes	5m	rate	per_sec		R

 

CIFS Counters 

The collection of CIFS share associated with a specific Storage Virtual Machine (SVM).

Counter Name	Frequency	Type	Units	Base Counter	Category
cifs_latency	5m	average	usecs	cifs_latency_base	D
cifs_read_latency	5m	average	usecs	cifs_read_ops	D
cifs_write_latency	5m	average	usecs	cifs_write_ops	D
cifs_latency_base	5m	delta	usecs	N/A	D
cifs_ops	5m	rate	per_sec	N/A	P
cifs_read_ops	5m	rate	per_sec	N/A	D
cifs_write_ops	5m	rate	per_sec	N/A	D

 

Counters for a disk

Counter Name	Frequency	Type	Units	Base Counter	Category
base_for_disk_busy	5m	delta			D
cp_reads	5m	rate			D
disk_busy	5m	percent	base_for_disk_busy		D
total_transfers	5m	rate			D
user_reads	5m	rate			D
user_writes	5m	rate			D

 

FCP LIF Counters

Counters for an individual LIF serving the FCP protocol

Counter Name	Frequency	Type	Units	Base Counter	Category
avg_latency	5m	average	usecs	total_ops	D
total_ops	5m	rate	per-Sec		D

 

FCP Port Counters

Counters for an individual physical port serving the FCP protocol

Counter Name	Frequency	Type	Units	Base Counter	Category
avg_other_latency	5m	average	usecs		D
avg_read_latency	5m	average	usecs		D
avg_write_latency	5m	average	usecs		D
other_ops	5m	other_ops	no_suffix		D
read_ops	5m	rate	no_suffix		D
write_ops	5m	rate	no_suffix		D

 

ISCSI LIF

Counters for an individual LIF serving the ISCSI protocol

Counter Name	Frequency	Type	Units	Base Counter	Category
avg_latency	5m	average	usecs	cmd_transfered	D
cmd_transfered	5m	raw		no_suffix	D
data_in_blocks	5m	raw		no_suffix	D
data_out_blocks	5m	raw		no_suffix	D
read_data	5m	raw	per_sec		D
write_data	5m	rate	per_sec		D

LIF Counters

 Counters for an individual LIF server NFS and CIFS and other NAS protocols

Counter Name	Frequency	Type	Units	Base Counter	Category
recv_data	5m	rate	byte_per_sec		D
recv_errors	5m	rate	per_sec		D
recv_packets	5m	rate	per_sec		D
send_errors	5m	rate	per_sec		D
send_packets	5m	rate	per_sec		D
sent_data	5m	rate	byte_per_sec		D

 

LUN Counters

Counters for a LUN associated with a specific SVM

Counter Name	Frequency	Type	Units	Base Counter	Category
avg_latency	5m	average	msecs	total_ops	P
avg_read_latency	5m	average	msecs	read_ops	D
avg_write_latency	5m	average	msecs	write_ops	D
other_ops	5m	rate	per_sec		D
read_data	5m	rate	byte_per_sec		D
read_ops	5m	rate	per_sec		D
read_partial_blocks	5m	rate	percent		D
total_ops	5m	rate	per_sec		P
write_data	5m	rate	byte_per_sec		D
write_ops	5m	rate	per_sec		D
write_partial_blocks	5m	percent	percent		D

 

NFSv3 Counters

The NFS version 3 protocol counters for the collection of NFS exports associated with a specific SVM

Counter Name	Frequency	Type	Units	Base Counter	Category
nfsv3_ops	5m	rate	per_sec		D
nfsv3_read_ops	5m	rate	per_sec		D
nfsv3_read_throughput	5m	rate	per_sec		D
nfsv3_throughput	5m	rate	per_sec		D
nfsv3_write_ops	5m	rate	per_sec		D
nfsv3_write_throughput	5m	rate	per_sec		D
read_avg_latency	5m	average	usecs	read_total	D
read_total	5m	delta	no_suffix		D
write_avg_latency	5m	average	usecs	read_total	D
write_total	5m	delta	no_suffix		D

 

NFSv4 Counters

The NFS version 4 protocol counters for the collection of NFS exports associated with a specific SVM

Counter Name	Frequency	Type	Units	Base Counter	Category
nfs4_ops	5m	rate	per_sec		P
nfs4_read_throughput	5m	rate	per_sec		D
nfs4_throughput	5m	rate	per_sec		P
nfs4_write_throughput	5m	rate	per_sec		D
read_avg_latency	5m	average	usecs	read_total	D
read_total (ops)	5m	delta	no_suffix		D
write_avg_latency	5m	average	usecs	write_total	D
write_total (ops)	5m	delta	no_suffix		D

 

NFS v4.1 Counters

The NFS version 4.1 protocol counters for the collection of NFS exports associated with a specific SVM

Counter Name	Frequency	Type	Units	Base Counter	Category
nfs41_ops					P
nfs41_read_throughput					D
nfs41_throughput					P
nfs41_write_throughput					D
read_avg_latency	5m	average	usecs	read_total	D
read_total (ops)	5m	delta	no_suffix		D
write_avg_latency	5m	average	usecs	write_total	D
write_total (ops)	5m	delta	no_suffix		D

 

NIC Common

Counter for an individual Network Interface Card serving NFS, CIFS, HTTP, and other NAS protocols
 

Counter Name	Frequency	Type	Units	Base Counter	Category
link_duplex	config	string	no_suffix		R
link_flowcontrol	config	string	no_suffix		R
link_speed config	config	raw	no_suffix		R
rx_bytes_rate	5m	rate	per_sec		R
rx_errors_rate	5m	rate	per_sec		R
tx_bytes_rate	5m	rate	per_sec		R
tx_errors_rate	5m	rate	per_sec		R

 

System (Node) Counters

Counters for an individual node in a cluster

Counter Name	Frequency	Type	Units	Base Counter	Category
avg_processor_busy	1m	percent	percent	cpu_elapsed_time	R
cifs_ops	1m	rate	per_sec		R
cpu_busy	1m	percent	percent	cpu_elapsed_time	R
cpu_elapsed_time	1m	delta	no_suffix		R
fcp_ops	1m	rate	per_sec		R
http_ops	1m	rate	per_sec		R
iscsi_ops	1m	rate	per_sec		R
net_data_recv	1m	rate	per_sec		R
net_data_sent	1m	rate	per_sec		R
nfs_ops	1m	rate	per_sec		R
other_ops	1m	rate	per_sec		R
partner_ops	1m	rate	per_sec		R
read_ops	1m	rate	per_sec		R
total_ops	1m	rate	per_sec		R
write_ops	1m	rate	per_sec		D
sys_avg_latency	1m	average	msecs	total_ops	R
sys_read_latency	1m	average	msecs	read_ops	D
sys_write_latency	1m	average	msecs	write_ops	D

 

Volume Counters 

Counters for a volume associated with a specific SVM:

Counter Name	Frequency	Type	Units	Base Counter	Category
avg_latency	5m	average	usecs	total_ops	P
other_latency	5m	average	usecs	other_ops	D
other_ops	5m	per_sec	per_sec		D
read_latency	5m	average	usecs	read_ops	D
read_ops	5m	per_sec	per_sec		D
total_ops	5m	per_sec	per_sec		P
write_latency	5m	average	usecs	write_ops	D
write_ops	5m	per_sec	per_sec		D