Quantum monitoring

XorMon, open source under GPL v3, monitors Quantum StorNext Q-Series and QXS storage. It uses the WBI and SMI-S API interfaces of the storage, and graphs capacity, IO, data throughput, latency, block size and cache hit per pool, plus volume, RAID group and drive statistics, health status and alerting.

Which Quantum StorNext storage systems does XorMon support?

XorMon supports Quantum StorNext Q-Series and QXS storage.

Both are in the list of supported storage systems on the storage monitoring page, as Quantum StorNext Q-Series and Quantum QXS. The feature matrix has one Quantum column for them, StorNext / QXS.

Sources: installation steps below, updated 2026-11-09, Storage monitoring, updated 2026-11-07, and Feature matrix, Quantum tab.

Which Quantum storage metrics does XorMon monitor?

Per pool, XorMon graphs capacity, capacity tier, IO, data, latency, block size and cache hit; per volume, IO, data, block size and cache hit; per RAID group and per drive, IO, data and latency.

The Quantum tab of the feature matrix also lists health status, and performance and hardware event alerting. In XorMon, event alerting sends an alert when a device turns red in the global health status dashboard, and a clear alert when it turns green again.

Sources: Feature matrix, Quantum tab, Storage monitoring, updated 2026-11-07, and Alerting, updated 2026-10-13.

How does XorMon connect to Quantum storage over WBI or SMI-S?

XorMon connects from the XorMon host to the storage through its WBI interface or its SMI-S interface, SMI-S being the Storage Management Initiative Specification.

WBI access must be used on new storage models which do not support SMI-S protocol. The XorMon deployment table lists both methods, StorNext via WBI and StorNext via SMI-S.

Sources: installation steps below, updated 2026-11-09, and XorMon deployment.

Key points

Monitors Quantum StorNext Q-Series and QXS storage.
Two access methods: WBI, or SMI-S; WBI is required on new models without SMI-S.
Pool: capacity, capacity tier, IO, data, latency, block size and cache hit.
Volume, RAID group and drive statistics, plus health status.
Performance and hardware event alerts, open source license (GPL v3).

Installation and configuration for Quantum StorNext

Quantum StorNex Q-Series and QXS are supported.

WBI
SMI-S

The product uses Quantum StorNex Q-Series SMI-S and WBI API interfaces.

Storage connectivity

Allow access from the XorMon host to the storage on ports 80 (WBI) and 5988 (SMI-S).
If you use https and secure SMI-S then test ports 443 and 5989 instead.
If you use storage cmd line configuration like in examples below (you can use the storage UI instead) then port 22 (ssh) must be open.

Make sure that secure SMI-S (port 5989) and WBI HTTPS (port 443) protocols are enabled on the storage

CMD line:

$ ssh -l manage <storage_hostname>
# show protocols
  Service and Security Protocols
  ------------------------------
  Web Browser Interface (HTTP): Enabled
  Secure Web Browser Interface (HTTPS): Enabled
  Command Line Interface (Telnet): Disabled
  Secure Command Line Interface (SSH): Enabled
  Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S): Enabled
  Unsecure Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S 5988): Disabled
  ...

If secure SMI-S or WBI HTTPS are not enabled:

# set protocols smis enabled
# set protocols https enabled

Create user xormon on the storage with monitor and standard roles, allow SMI-S and WBI.
- CMD line method:
  Adjust password to your preferred one from used Test1234.
```
$ ssh -l manage <storage_hostname>
# create user interfaces smis,wbi locale English password Test1234 roles monitor,standard xormon  
```
- UI:
  
  (example uses 'stor2rrd' user but use 'xormon' preferable)
Note for HPE MSA 2050 (firmware VL270P002-02 and newer perhaps): role "standard" is necessary for WBI access.

XorMon storage configuration

Add storage into configuration from the UI:
XorMon UI: Settings icon ➡ Device ➡Storage ➡ New ➡ Vendor:device ➡ Quantum StorNex ➡ SMI-S

If you set https in above storage properties then this must be enabled on the storage:

$ ssh -l manage <storage_hostname>
# show protocols
  ...
  Secure Web Browser Interface (HTTPS): Enabled
  Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S): Enabled
  ...

If you use http then this:

  Web Browser Interface (HTTP): Enabled
  Unsecure Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S 5988): Enabled

Do not use shell special characters like @#!?|$*[]\{}`"'& in the password, use rather ;:.+- instead.
Run "Test" for configured storage device, it must show "OK"
Wait about 1 hour, then reload the web browser, you should see it in XorMon UI

The product uses storage WBI API interfaces natively provided by the storage.
WBI access must be used on new storage models which do not support SMI-S protocol.

Storage connectivity

Allow access from the XorMon host to the storage on ports 443.

Make sure that secure and WBI HTTPS (port 443) protocol is enabled on the storage

CMD line:

$ ssh -l manage <storage_hostname>
# show protocols
  Service and Security Protocols
  ------------------------------
  ...
  Secure Web Browser Interface (HTTPS): Enabled
  ...

If secure WBI HTTPS is not enabled:

# set protocols https enabled

Create user xormon on the storage with monitor and standard roles, allow WBI.
- CMD line method:
  Adjust password to your preferred one from used Test1234.
```
$ ssh -l manage <storage_hostname>
# create user interfaces wbi locale English password Test1234 roles monitor,standard xormon
```
- UI:
  
  (example uses 'stor2rrd' user but use 'xormon' preferable)
Note for HPE MSA 2050 (firmware VL270P002-02 and newer perhaps): role "standard" is necessary for WBI access.

XorMon storage configuration

Add storage into configuration from the UI:
XorMon UI: Settings icon ➡ Device ➡Storage ➡ New ➡ Vendor:device ➡ Quantum StorNex ➡ WBI

If you set https in above storage properties then this must be enabled on the storage:
```
$ ssh -l manage <storage_hostname>
# show protocols
  ...
  Secure Web Browser Interface (HTTPS): Enabled
  ...
```
If you use http then this:
```
  Web Browser Interface (HTTP): Enabled
```
Run "Test" for configured storage device, it must show "OK"
Wait about 1 hour, then reload the web browser, you should see it in XorMon UI

For other vendors, see multi-vendor storage monitoring in XorMon.

Dernière mise à jour : 2026-11-09