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Welcome to the ZenPacks.ndgov.IBMsvc wiki!

The goal of this project is to create an affordable way to monitor IBM’s SAN Volume Controller (SVC). My organization recently purchased Zenoss to monitor devices in our network and I thought I would give it a go to try and add functionality for the SVC.

As a disclaimer to the quality of the code; I have been programming for about 11 years, but this is my first foray into the world of Python programming. It has been made somewhat more difficult because Zenoss is built on Zope so the learning curve has been that much steeper. I’m getting there, just bare with me. If you would like to help out with the project I would be greatly indebted to you. The more eyes on this code the better it will be.

The current status of the project is somewhat minimal. It does some basic modeling of the cluster and mdisk groups. I have the performance parser written for tracking mdisk group usage. Getting the rest of it linked together and having the ability to start tracking performance on the mdisk and vdisk levels is my next goal. The performance data for the SVC is output in XML and I currently have parsers written in Perl to format the data. I will upload the legacy Perl code to github once I cleanse the scripts and the conversion to Python/Zope can proceed.

In the meantime, if you have input or you would like to test the ZenPack, feel free to check out the code. I also hope to have an official ZenPack on Zenoss’ community ZenPack site soon.

Cheers,

Dan Wanek