Platform and hardware requirements

Splunk Enterprise requirements

• Splunk App for NetApp Data ONTAP works on Splunk Enterprise deployed in a Linux x64 environment. See "System requirements" in the Splunk Enterprise Installation Manual.

• Splunk Enterprise 6.0.7 or later
• Splunk Enterprise 6.1.5 or later
• Splunk Enterprise 6.2.0 or later

• A valid Splunk Enterprise license that can support approximately 300 MB to 1GB of data per filer per day.
• A Splunk Enterprise server or forwarder with network access to the storage controllers.

Supported NetApp versions

The Splunk App for NetApp Data ONTAP is compatible with NetApp® Data ONTAP® versions 8.0.2 to 8.2 in 7-mode and cluster mode.

Splunk certifies the app to work on

• NetApp® Data ONTAP® versions 8.0.2, 8.0.3, and version 8.2 in 7-mode only.
• NetApp® Data ONTAP® versions 8.2 in cluster mode.

Splunk Enterprise supports NetApp® DATA ONTAP on NetApp V-series and FAS controllers.

Browser support

Splunk App for NetApp Data ONTAP supports the browser versions listed below:

• Firefox (latest)
• Internet Explorer 9 and 10
• Safari (latest)
• Chrome (latest)

Splunk App for NetApp Data ONTAP data volume requirements

Splunk App for NetApp Data ONTAP requires a license that can collect:

• performance data at a volume of 300MB to 1GB per filer per day
• syslog data at a volume of 100MB

The number of volumes and disks in your NetApp environment directly impact your data volume.

When you have the app up and running, navigate to the App Data Volume view to see the volume of data it is indexing in your environment. From the App menu, select Settings, then App Data Volume. You can see:

• The total quantity of data indexed over a 24 hour time period
• A breakdown of the type of data, and the volume of each type

Splunk data collection node resource requirements

At a minimum, a single data collection node requires:

• 4 cores - 4 vCPUs or 2 vCPUs with 2 cores with a reservation of 2 GHz
• 6GB memory with a reservation of 1 GB
• 4-10 GB of disk space

At these requirements, one data collection node can collect from 15 to 50 filers.

Software requirements

A single data collection node requires:

• A version of CentOS or RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that is compatible with one of the following:

• Splunk Enterprise 6.0.6
• Splunk Enterprise 6.1.5
• Splunk Enterprise 6.2.0

• A Splunk Enterprise heavy forwarder or light forwarder, version 5.0.4 or later. This is a minimum Splunk requirement for the Splunk App for NetApp Data ONTAP. You cannot use Universal Forwarder.
• The following components bundled with Splunk App for NetApp Data ONTAP:

• SA-Hydra
• SA-Utils
• Splunk_TA_ontap