An HCP S Series Node provides information about its status through a variety of mechanisms:
- The HCP S Series Management Console displays:
- Information about storage usage on the Dashboard page
- Information about bucket usage on the BUCKETS page
- Detailed information about the S Series Node hardware components and the status of those components on the HARDWARE OVERVIEW page and on the pages accessible from that page
- Messages about events that have occurred on the S Series Node
- Alerts that notify you about conditions that the S Series Node is currently experiencing
Status information that's available in the Management Console is also available through the HCP S Series management API.
- You can configure the S Series Node to send event log messages, log messages for data access requests, and log messages for management API requests to one or more syslog servers.
- Through the management API, you can get current and historical information about the use of S Series Node storage.
- Through the management API, you can get current information about the load on certain S Series Node resources.
- Through the management API, you can get current and historical information about the load on resources used by various S Series Node processes.
- Many hardware components have LEDs that light up to indicate certain conditions.
- Some LEDs serve as beacons. Beacons enable you to easily identify components in your data center.
You can use the HCP S Series Management Console or management API to turn beaconing on or off for certain components.
- The S Series Node internal logs contain detailed records of the status and activity of various components of the software running on the S Series Node. Error conditions reported in the internal logs can be an indication of hardware issues.
You can use the HCP S Series Management Console or management API to insert comments into or to download the internal logs.
- If in use by an HCP system, the S Series Node notifies that system about certain abnormal conditions as they occur.
- If the Hitachi Remote Ops monitor agent is configured to monitor the S Series Node, the S Series Node sends status information to the monitor agent in response to periodic requests from the agent.