New Release – STOR2RRD & LPAR2RRD (7.50)

by Davoud Teimouri · 21/09/2022

I’ve published many articles about STOR2RRD and LPAR2RRD monitoring software for monitoring servers, OS, storage, SAN, LAN and other devices. XORUX has released new version of the monitoring suites with new features and capabilities. Let’s review the new features, capabilities and changes.

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STOR2RRD 7.50 – New Features

Actually, there is no new feature, but some new devices can be added and also there are many enhancements.

STOR2RRD 7.50 – Support for New Monitored Devices

Brocade SANnav

InforTrend EonStor DS Series
IBM Cloud Object Storage

STOR2RRD 7.50 – Main Enhancements

Alerting
- ServiceNow integration
- Jira integration
- New alerting rule for all volumes in a storage
- Option to define severity of configured alerts
- Sending clear alerts
- Option to set up SMTP server manually

PureStorage: added virtual capacity
Dell EMC² XtremIO: added virtual capacity
Dell EMC² PowerStore: there was a limit for monitored volumes set to 100 by default, fixed

HPE 3PAR / Primera: added HW alerting for faulty Cage and PSU when CLI is used for storage connection
HPE StoreOnce V4: added capacity ( User Data, Size on Disk, Ratio ) for VTL, NAS, CATALYST
Hitachi VSP-G/F: many small fixes and enhancements

Cisco SAN switch: added count of the licensed ports
FreeNAS / TrueNAS: support for v12+ storage firmware
DataCore: support for SAN topology

IBM FlashSystem / Storwize: FlashCopy Freeze Time added to the table
Promise vTrack: health status enhancements
Promise vTrack: small fixes and enhancements

Rubrik
- Option to add more nodes into the configuration
- Support for token-based authorization

I should check Jira integration; this new alerting feature is interesting to me.

LPAR2RRD 7.50 – New Features

LPAR2RRD 7.50 has no new feature, and all changes are enhancement for current features.

Alerting feature enhancements are much interesting because you cannot put your eyes on monitor.

LPAR2RRD 7.50 – Enhancements

Alerting
- ServiceNow integration
- Jira integration
- Option to define severity of configured alerts
- Option to set up SMTP server manually
- OracleDB: tablespace alerting
- AIX / Linux: implemented alerting for disk multipath fails
IBM Power Systems
- New “Volume ID” table in Configuration, with all storage volume IDs used
- Added new Power10 servers rPerfs into CPU Workoad Estimator
- Added NMON-based TOP10
- Many smaller fixes especially for REST API-based HMC access

VMware
- CPU Ready total [%] added into main VM CPU graphs
- Added “Volume ID” column into datastore table in Configuration
- Added provisioned and used space into VM table in Configuration
oVirt / RHV
- Support for RHV 4.5.1.3+ due to changes in the RHV API
- New storage-capacity table grouped by VM in Configuration
Oracle Solaris
- SARMON: added IOPS, Latency and Data throughput
- SARMON: historical reporting now based on its data
Microsoft Windows / Hyper-V
- Added latency for each host
- Added latency for each disk
- Added paging2