Showing posts with label oncommand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oncommand. Show all posts

Monday, August 19, 2013

NetApp stats in Splunk

I just recently found a great new app for Splunk - the Splunk App for NetApp ONTAP.  If you only have a small NetApp environment, trying to get quick and easy historical stats couldn't be easier.  NetApp does provide the OnCommand suite which gives reporting, but to be completely honest, for small environments I just don't think it's worth it.  OnCommand is large, bloated, cumbersome to deploy and, well, crap.  

The Splunk App for NetApp Ontap deploys in minutes and easy to set up.  You get great insight into your environment right out of the box, and did I mention that it's free?  Yes, free!  Like so many other great apps out there for Splunk, it is community developed and supported.  It's well worth your time to check it out.  If you have the slighted bit of experience with Splunk, then you'll find that it is very simple to write custom reports using the app and extract virtually any kind of capturable data from your NetApp filers.  Needless to say, my OnCommand install is about to get nuked!