Preparing Symantec Data Insight to receive event notifications from an EMC Isilon cluster

EMC Common Event Enabler (CEE) version 6.1 or later is required to receive events from EMC Isilon OneFS cluster. You can install CEE either on the same Windows server as the Data Insight Collector node or on a remote server in the same directory service domain.

To prepare Data Insight to receive event notification

  1. Install EMC CEE framework on a Windows server so that it runs in the same directory service domain as the filers you want to monitor.
  2. Open Windows Registry Editor (Start > Run > regedit).
  3. Modify the registry entry for the EMC CAVA service to allow access to the Data Insight Collector node. Depending on the type of your Data Insight deployment, there can be the following different scenarios:
    • The EMC CAVA service and the Collector node are running on the same machine, and the EMC CAVA service is only being used by Data Insight. In this case, add the Data Insight key, SymantecDataConnector, to the Endpoint option.

    • The EMC CAVA service and the Collector node are running on the same machine, and the EMC CAVA service is also being used by applications other than Data Insight. In this case, append the Data Insight key, SymantecDataConnector, to the Endpoint option. Each entry must be separated by a semi-colon.

      Note:

      The above-mentioned scenarios are automatically configured at the time adding filers.

    • The EMC CAVA service and the Collector node are running on separate machines, and the EMC CAVA service is being used only by Data Insight. In this case, add the Data Insight key in the format, SymantecDataConnector@<IP address of the Collector>, to the Endpoint option.

    • The EMC CAVA service and the Collector node are running on separate machines, and the EMC CAVA service is also being used by applications other than Data Insight. In this case, append the Data Insight key in the format,SymantecDataConnector@<IP address of the Collector>, to the Endpoint option.

    If the EMC CAVA service is installed on multiple machines, modify the registry entries on each of these machines.

  4. Configure the following registry values:
    • Navigate to the location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > EMC > CEE > Configuration. Note the key called HttpPort. The default key value is specified as 12228. You can modify this key value but you must ensure that this value matches the port in the CEE URL that is specified during Isilon audit configuration.

      See Configuring audit settings on EMC Isilon cluster using OneFS GUI console.

    • Navigate to the location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > EMC > CEE > CEPP > Audit > Configurtion. Set the value of key Enabled to 1.

    • Navigate to the location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > EMC > CEE > CEPP > Audit > Configuration. Set the value of key EndPointi to SymantecDataConnector@<IP of Data Insight Collector machine>

  5. Log on to the Data Insight Management Console.

    Navigate to Settings > Data Insight Servers to open the Data Insight Servers details page for the Collector.

  6. Navigate to the service configuration section on the filer, and click Enable to start the DataInsightCelerra service on the Collector node.
  7. Under Credentials, enter the credentials that the service needs to run as. The specified credentials must be that of a domain user.
  8. Click Configure to apply these settings to the server.
  9. Restart the EMC CAVA and EMC CEE Monitor service on the Collector machine or on the remote CAVA server if the services are remotely installed.