I covered the release of Stormons 1.3.2 GA here and mentioned a few of the highlights of the new version. In between doing some vCD stuff and the general faffing about that seems to happen at this time of year, I’ve had a chance to install it on my lab PC and monitor our two CX4-120s. I’m not going to regurgitate the installation manual (which can be downloaded from here). I thought it might be more useful if I covered off the bits that weren’t obvious to me when I first installed the product. Note that if you’re used to deploying web apps and familiar with Apache configuration files, you won’t have as much of an issue with getting this working as I did. As it happens, I’m more idiot than savant when it comes to these things so it took me a little longer than it should have to get going.
Windows Server 2003 is listed as the supported OS. I used 32-bit Windows 7, as that was the OS on my laptop at the time. I used Apache 2.2 as the web server. There’s a bunch of supported models listed in the installation guide, but I’ve only used this product with EMC CLARiiON CX4 arrays. I can’t speak for its usefulness with NetApp FAS, EMC Symmetrix, EMC Celerra or Brocade FC devices.
I copied the extracted (and renamed) installation files to C:\tools\ and set the System Variable accordingly. Here’re the changes I made to my httpd.conf file to get things working. If I’ve done things really badly, feel free to chime in.
The first bit is to add a Directory for the location of the SM1.3 installation.
# STORMONS <Directory "C:/tools/SM1.3/http"> SetEnv STORMONS_HOME "C:/tools/SM1.3" AllowOverride None Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory>
I then added in Aliases for the /SM and other directories.
# STORMONS Alias /SM "C:/tools/SM1.3/http" Alias /capa_spk "C:/tools/SM1.3/repository/capacity/spk" Alias /perf_spk "C:/tools/SM1.3/repository/performance/spk"
I also uncommented the .cgi handler under
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
And that was it from the Apache side of things. After that I ran through the Stormons configuration as per the installation guide, setting paths to various binaries, etc. Note that if you’ve just copied RRDtool from the internet it’s worth running it first. I was missing the msvcr100.dll and it was crapping out without my knowledge (re-installing the Visual Studio 2008 redistributable fixed that). When you’re installing the Stormons polling service, make sure that you’re running a command prompt with sufficient privileges to install services, or you won’t get any useful results. I’m still having problems with RRDtool drawing pictures, but I’m working on that.
I’m hoping to do a more thorough run-through on some of the stuff you can do with Stormons in the next week or two.