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Using the data

Once you figure out how you can get the data, take control of it by putting it in your capacity tool.

These are the sorts of things I have been asked to import alongside more traditional data.

•      Business / Customer transaction reports (multiple types)

•      Open VMS T4 data

•      Historical CPU & Memory data from home grown scripts

•      NetApp, HP EVA

•      IP Pool allocation

•      Datacentre temperature & power

It’s an ever growing list and let’s take a look at a more detailed example below, for the purposes of this I’ve chosen NetApp.

If you want to get data out of NetApp Operations manager there is a nice command you can run “dfm data export”.  Just set your format, interval length and the duration of the data you want. 

–     Operations Manager DFM CLI Export

–     Occupancy and performance data for all LUNS, Volumes, Aggregates & Systems connected to Operations Manager.

–     dfm data export run –d comma –t “5 mins” –f avg –h “1 day”

–     Database tables in .csv

–     Script to produce something “nicer” to import 

I'll be looking at data from the Cloud on Wednesday, don't forget to sign up to our Community in the meantime 

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Phil Bell

Consultant