Does Dynatrace provide health status of SAN components like controllers, switches, HBAs, and interconnects?

[GosiaMurawska]

Can a system monitor the health of SAN components?

[theharithsa · Accepted solution]

Yes – provided this information is exposed by the SAN or switch device:

• Controllers and ports: Health states and error counts can be pulled via SNMP or REST APIs.
• Fibre switches (e.g., Brocade): You can use SNMP polling to monitor port status, CRC errors, and link failures.
• HBAs: While not directly visible unless logged by the OS, their errors can be inferred via host metrics or logs.