Feature Request - Supervision and Monitoring

[oragain]

Hi,
After a discussion with your support staff, it seems the following features are not available at this time. Although, I am still looking into WMI classes as it feels like your GUI is using Windows Performance Counters in one way or another so I might be able to 'hack' my way into getting those.

It would be great if:
* You could monitor the disk space consumed / size of disks via SNMP / Traps / WMI
* You could monitor the performance as seen by StarWind via SNMP / Traps / WMI
* You could monitor the health of servers / replicas / HA / Deduplication via SNMP / Traps / WMI
* You could monitor the network bandwidth / IOPS consumed by each host per image via SNMP / Traps / WMI / GUI

Thanks
Olivier

[Ivan (staff)]

Hello Olivier,
Thank you for your interest in StarWind solution.
Your request will be sent to our R&D team.
I hope this features will be available in next builds.
Thanks,
Ivan

[KPS]

Hi!

I think, this is a critical point. Isn't there any possibility to monitor the status of a cluster? I think, the most important things are:

- Status of a volume:
- Synchronization State
- Number iSCSI-Sessions


...and perhaps some performance counters...

Regards,
KPS

[anton (staff)]

We'll be releasing StarWind Manager quite soon, and we'll be making it expandable so it would be trivial to add missing functionality by yourself Please stay tuned!

[KPS]

Hi Anton!

What I did now, was using a powershell script to find the synchronization state of the two nodes. Your example GetHASyncState.ps1 is very helpful. The only problem is, that it is showing "synchronized" on node-1, when node-2 is completely down.

Regards,
KPS

[Ivan (staff)]

Dear KPS,
Thanks for your question.
The Sync state will show you "Synchronized" on the node which is online because devices on this node have status "Synchronized".
There is 3 different state of StarWind device which can show:
1) Synchonized - ready to connect
2) Not Synchronized - StarWind service is not available. We can't connect to this target
3) Synchronizing - StarWind service is available and performing the Synchronization. We still can't connect to this device.
Note: Once StarWind device will be "Synchronized" we able to connect to this device.
Please do not hesitate to ask any additional questions
Thanks,
Ivan

[epalombizio]

Starwind,
It would also be helpful if you could throttle email notifications.
I find that Starwind will bombard me with hundreds of emails whenever a loss of sync occurs and due to the sheer volume, I'll receive emails hours after the actual event occurred.

I requested this feature at least a year ago.

Thanks,
Elvis

[Ivan (staff)]

Dear Elvis,
Thanks for your message.
I will forward your request to our R&D (I am pretty sure it was forwarded year ago ).
I believe "letter spam" will be fixed in next builds.
Thanks,
Ivan