filesystem monitoring for Nutanix VM's

[Saini Aditi]

Hi Team ,
We are using Nutanix probe 1.56hf3, to monitor Nutanix cluster and Nutanix VM's.
But in the nutanix probe the filesystems of respective VMs are not discovered for example for LINUX systems we have /var,/opt filesystem.
I know these are autodiscovered in vmware probe , but as we are already using nutanix probe for nutanix environment how could this be achieved.
What we can see is respective  total disk and  capacity metrics.
Is there a way we can discover filesystem of these VM's and configure them under monitoring.Kindly suggest.

Thanks
Aditi

[Kathy Maguire]

Aditi -

According to the "Disk Metrics" section of the  nutanix_monitor Metrics techdoc, the probe is currently designed to only monitor specific physical disks in the environment and not filesystems.

The VM_GUEST_DISK metrics collected by the vmware probe are monitoring filesystems and not physical disks.

The current design of the nutanix probe will not allow you to monitor VM filesystems.    My recommendation would be to enter this as a feature request on this Community site if you would like Product Management to consider this in a future release of this probe: KB34730 : How to submit an Idea (Feature Request) to the CA UIM User Communities

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Kathy Maguire
Technical Support Engineer 4
Broadcom
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[Saini Aditi]

Thank you Kathy for the update, will create idea.
Meanwhile is there any  other way/workaround so that we can get filesystems monitored for these discovered VM.

Thankyou 
Aditi

[Gregg Stillwell]

Had a customer using Nutanix who just installed robots on Nutanix instances and used the Nutanix probe for Nutanix only, just like VMWare. I don't know much about Nutanix but that is how this customer monitored individual FS's, on the child/client/instance level if possible in your Env.

[Saini Aditi]

Thankyou Gregg,
We cannot opt for robot installation as remote monitoring is required.
Planning to use RSP probe now, but was wondering if we could get any other solution as we have to add profiles for all vm's on rsp probe .

Thanks
Aditi