Monday, March 7, 2011

Celerra top talkers & suspicious ops defined

The EMC Celerra datamovers have the ability to log statistics about top talkers, which can be useful for tracking down problems. We run server_stats with these options to get top talker stats:

/nas/bin/server_stats server_2 -top nfs -i 5 -c 60

One thing worth noting is there's a column labeled "NFS Suspicious Ops". There's no documentation on this column, and it took EMC some time to dig up the answer. Here it is:

SUSPICIOUS EVENTS:
One of the TopTalker output columns lists Suspicious Ops/second.
"Suspicious" events are any of the following, which are typical of the patterns seen when viruses or other badly behaved software/users are attacking a system:

CIFS events:
  • ACCESS_DENIED returned for FindFirst
  • ACCESS_DENIED returned for Open/CreateFile
  • ACCESS_DENIED returned for DeleteFile
  • SUCCESS returned for DeleteFile
  • SUCCESS returned for TruncateFile (size=0)

NFSv2/v3/v4 events:
  • NFSERR_ACCES returned for NFS OPEN/LOOKUP/CREATE/DELETE
  • NFSERR_ACCES returned for READDIR/READDIRPLUS
  • NFS_OK for NFS REMOVE
  • NFS_OK for NFS SETATTR (size=0)

5 comments:

  1. Interesting, Jeff. I cannot find much information on the 'top talkers' feature for the Celerra. Do you know of any relevant documentation on PowerLink and which version of DART this feature was introduced?

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  2. I think it was in 5.6 first.

    In 6.0 it has a slightly different invocation (and more options).

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  3. Hi Jeff,

    I see you wrote a very interesting article on https://community.emc.com/message/574947#574947 where you took the output of server_stats and used this in graphite. Would you be so kind as to explain the process you took to get the data into graphite?

    Regards,
    Jason

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