Recommend the Most Appropriate Monitoring Capabilities for the Situation ECS-DESIGN Practice Questions (Page 4)

Questions 16–20

1. 16application · medium

   A startup runs a small Dell ECS cluster for development and testing. They have limited IT staff and want to minimize management overhead. They need to know if the cluster is healthy and if any nodes are down. What is the most appropriate monitoring approach?

   • ADeploy a full external monitoring platform with custom dashboards and paging.
   • BRely on the cluster's self-healing capabilities and only check when users report issues.
   • CUse the ECS Management UI's built-in health dashboard and configure email alerts for node down events.
   • DSet up SNMP traps to a third-party monitoring service.
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2. 17application · medium

   A hospital uses Dell ECS to store medical images. The IT team needs to be alerted if the cluster's storage capacity exceeds 85% so they can plan expansions before writes fail. They already have a Nagios monitoring system. What is the most efficient way to meet this requirement?

   • ASet up a script that emails the IT team when capacity is high.
   • BHave an administrator manually check the capacity daily.
   • CConfigure ECS to send SNMP traps to Nagios for capacity threshold events.
   • DUse the ECS Management UI to view capacity and set a reminder.
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4. 18expert · hard

   A healthcare provider uses Dell ECS to store patient records. They have a strict requirement to be alerted within 5 minutes of any node failure. They also want to avoid false alarms. Which alerting configuration best meets this requirement?

   • AUse the Management UI to manually check node status every hour.
   • BConfigure email alerts for node down events with a 10-minute delay.
   • CSet up a daily script to check node status and send an email if a node is down.
   • DConfigure SNMP traps for node down events with a 5-minute polling interval on the trap receiver.
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5. 19application · medium

   A research organization runs a Dell ECS cluster that supports both high-performance analytics and long-term archival storage. The analytics team complains about slow read performance during peak hours, while the archive team reports no issues. The administrator suspects the analytics workload is consuming excessive resources. Which monitoring data would best confirm this?

   • APer-bucket IOPS and throughput metrics
   • BOverall cluster CPU utilization
   • CCapacity utilization per storage pool
   • DNetwork interface error counters
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6. 20application · medium

   An enterprise uses ServiceNow for IT service management. They want Dell ECS alerts to automatically create ServiceNow incidents. What is the most appropriate way to achieve this?

   • AHave ECS send email alerts directly to ServiceNow's email-to-incident feature.
   • BUse the ECS Management UI to manually create incidents in ServiceNow.
   • CConfigure ECS to send SNMP traps to a middleware that converts them to ServiceNow REST API calls.
   • DConfigure ServiceNow to poll the ECS S3 API for alerts.
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