IBM Spectrum Exporter

IBM Spectrum Exporter is a Prometheus exporter to collect & export data from IBM Spectrum.

Collectors

Currently we have 3 collectors :

Storage Systems

Collecting performance metrics from the Storage Systems and the volumes.

Switches

Collecting performance metrics from the Switches

Pools

Collecting properties from the pool, e.g. total capacity.

Metrics selection

The selection of metrics to collect from IBM Spectrum is done based on a configuration file.

It will translate an internal metric ID into a prometheus metric.

The list of metrics available with the API can be verified with the following example :

Storage System

https://:9569/srm/REST/api/v1/StorageSystems//Performance

Switches

https://:9569/srm/REST/api/v1/Switches//Performance

Metric config file definition

The metric config file describes the translation between IBM Spectrum metrics and the metrics to expose to Prometheus.

It's a simple YAML file following the below structure :

metrics:
  
  storage_systems:                                               # Section for Storage System only.
    - ibm_spectrum_metric_id: 1029
      prometheus_name: storage_invalid_link_transmission_rate
      prometheus_help: The average number of times per second that an invalid transmission word was detected by the port while the link did not experience any signal or synchronization loss.

  storage_systems_and_volumes:                                  # Section for Storage System and Volumes
    - ibm_spectrum_metric_id: 803                               # Internal ID of the metric to be exposed
      prometheus_name: storage_avg_read_io_ops_per_second       # Prometheus metric name to be exported
      prometheus_help: Average number of read operations per second (both sequential and non-sequential, if applicable), for a particular component over a particular time interval.

    - ibm_spectrum_metric_id: 806
      prometheus_name: storage_avg_write_io_ops_per_second
      prometheus_help: Average number of write operations per second (both sequential and non-sequential, if applicable), for a particular component over a particular time interval.

  switches:                                                     # Section for Switches
    - ibm_spectrum_metric_id: 860                               # Internal ID of the metric to be exposed            
      prometheus_name: storage_switcher_avg_total_mb_per        # Prometheus metric name to be exported
      prometheus_help: Average number of mebibytes (2^20 bytes) transferred per second.

  pools:                                                        # Section for Pools
    properties:                                                 # In this case the Pool property will be exposed
      - property_name: Capacity                                 # Internal Property name
        prometheus_name: storage_usable_capacity_GiB            # Prometheus metric name to be exported
        prometheus_help: Usable Capacity

      - property_name: Available Pool Space
        prometheus_name: storage_free_capacity_GiB
        prometheus_help: Free Capacity

Metrics ouput

exporter-ip:9741/metrics


# HELP storage_avg_read_io_ops_per_second Average number of read operations per second (both sequential and non-sequential, if applicable), for a particular component over a particular time interval.
# TYPE storage_avg_read_io_ops_per_second gauge
storage_avg_read_io_ops_per_second{name="SVCXXXX",type="storageSystem"} 3691.71 1589834596000
storage_avg_read_io_ops_per_second{name="Volume=Name",storage_name="SVCXXXX",type="volume"} 14.7 1589834556000

# HELP storage_switcher_avg_total_mb_per Average number of mebibytes (2^20 bytes) transferred per second.
# TYPE storage_switcher_avg_total_mb_per gauge
storage_switcher_avg_total_mb_per{name="switchname"} 10746.11 1589834720000

# HELP storage_usable_capacity_GiB Usable Capacity
# TYPE storage_usable_capacity_GiB gauge
storage_usable_capacity_GiB{pool_name="pool-name",storage_system="v1234"} 2299.48

IBM Spectrum API connection

To connect to the API an user is needed with read permissions.

Installation

The tool can be installed from pre-built docker image or the binaries can be downloaded from the Github releases page.

Installing the Docker Image

docker pull topine/ibm-spectrum-exporter:latest

Usage

./ibm-spectrum-exporter --base-url=BASE-URL --user=USER --password=PASSWORD [<flags>]

Flags:
  -h, --help                                     Show context-sensitive help (also try --help-long and --help-man).
      --collector.pool                           Enable the pool collector (default: enabled).
      --collector.pool.filter=".*"               Enable the pool collectorvregex filter (default: .*).
      --collector.storage                        Enable the storage collector (default: enabled).
      --collector.storage.filter=".*"            Enable the storage collectorvregex filter (default: .*).
      --collector.switch                         Enable the switch collector (default: enabled).
      --collector.switch.filter=".*"             Enable the switch collectorvregex filter (default: .*).
      --listen-address=":9741"                   Address on which to expose metrics and web interface.
      --telemetry-path="/metrics"                Path under which to expose metrics.
      --metric-config-path="metrics_conf.yaml"   Metric configuration file absolute path
  -t, --base-url=BASE-URL                        IBM Spectrum base url
      --cache-metrics                            Cache metrics to avoid multiple calls
      --collection-interval="@every 5m"          Metrics Collection interval
  -u, --user=USER               IBM Spectrum username
  -p, --password=PASSWORD       IBM Spectrum username

Certificate and trust management

For the moment all certificates are accepted, including the invalid ones.