Pyro, our in-house EMC Clariion performance analysis tool.

EMC refused to allow us to use (or even sell us!) the internal tool *they* use to produce heat maps of their storage gear... A very valuable diagnostic tool that helps customers identify trouble spots on their SANs.. So, we built our own, with my employers blessings. Wrote the code to do this in about three weeks.

Hi, EMC. :)

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• EMC
• Clariion
• Storage
• Performance
• SAN
• FiberChannel
• SATA
• CX4-480
• CX4-240

[bpoag]

I've been very tempted to sell Pyro on the side. I dont want to be at odds with my employer, however. I built it on their dime, in their cubicle, with their SAN.

[bpoag]

There's a backend process that grabs a .NAR file dump, parses it, and dumps the results into a MySQL database. It holds about 45 days worth of historical data. Pyro runs queries against it, and cross-references what it learns from about half a dozen naviseccli dumps to display what you see here.

[bpoag]

No plans on selling it. It's an in-house tool.

[stevedotcarter]

Looks great :-)

How often do you pull the NAR files?

[nictamer]

@bpoag How did you grab the data? Reverse engineered the archive files?

[nictamer]

As a Linux sysadmin, I hate EMC with a passion. Their software looks like it's written by complete retards.

[mobius20]

Do you have any idea what awesome amounts of money you could sell this for? Hell, sell it to EMC - they need it!

[thelettertsix]

yes you can use a "game cam" to get the screen to show nice like.

[zenbyo]

Nice work!

[jehunthahn]

Instead of shaky hand-held video, consider doing a screencast. Tis looks like fantastic software, but the camera work makes it harder to really appreciate it.