Performing an ONTAP Health Check Analysis

Here are 5 health check / analysis / assessment tools for ONTAP:

• ActiveIQ (web browser)
• https://activeiq.netapp.com/
• Config Advisor (run either locally or over VPN to ActiveIQ)
• NetApp Docs (run either locally or over VPN to ActiveIQ)
• Using a script in ONTAP (run locally)
• How to perform a cluster health check with a script in ONTAP - NetApp KB
• ActiveIQ Unified Manager (AIQUM) (run locally)

For performance metrics analysis and monitoring:

• NetApp Harvest (run locally)
• See: https://netapp.github.io/harvest

Other tools in the NetApp Toolchest include:

• ActiveIQ OneCollect
• MetroCluster Data Collector (MCDC)
• NFS cDOT Showmount tool
• Performance and Statistics Collector (perfstat for Clustered Data ONTAP)
• SnapGathers
• Syslog Translator

Additional Notes:

The 3 main remote (via ActiveIQ) health checks:

1) ActiveIQ Storage Health sub-sections:

• Dashboard
• Useful for risks and Keystone (if using)
• AutoSupport
• Performance
• Especially interesting is node CPU utilization (also latency if not SSD)
• ClusterView
• Sustainability (NEW) (available only at customer, watchlist, group or site level)
• Capacity and Efficiency
• Worth looking at Node Aggregate space utilization. Also Storage Efficiency to see the Data Reduction levels being achieved.
• Keystone Advisor (BETA) (available only at a customer level)
• Health Check
• Essentially a summary of the risks from the Dashboard.
• Health Assessment (a paid for service)
• Cloud Recommendations
• Covers: Migration, Backup & Archive, Disaster Recovery, Tiering
• Valuable Insights

2) Config Advisor

3) NetAppDocs

Commands to run in PowerShell>

Import-Module NetAppDocs

$ClusterName = "CLUSTERNAME"

$SerialOfNode = "SERIALNUMBER"

[String]$ClusterID = (Find-NtapAsupClusterId -ClusterName $ClusterName -NodeSerialNumber $SerialOfNode).cluster_identifier

Get-NtapClusterAsupData -Cluster ($ClusterName + ":" + $ClusterID) | Format-NtapClusterData | Out-NtapDocument -WordFile ("C:\Output\" + $ClusterName + ".Docx") -ExcelFile ("C:\Output\" + $ClusterName + ".xlsx")