Monitoring capacity

You can use Ops Center Administrator to monitor block storage capacity so you can tell when physical capacity usage is exceeding thresholds set for your pools.

Alerts are represented by the number shown on the right-hand side of the Capacity Alerts tab label. It indicates the number of the capacity components that are monitored by Ops Center Administrator and have alerts. The number shown on the right-hand side of the pool tab label represents the number of the alerts in its component. The number includes errors and warnings. The Error threshold is set in the "Utilization Threshold (High)" field when the pool is created and the Warning threshold is set in the "Utilization Threshold (Low)" field.

Capacity Alerts for all storage systems are shown on the dashboard and on the Monitoring tab. Click the Capacity Alerts tab to view the number of pools that have alerts and their details. The number of Capacity Alerts cannot be more than 1 because Ops Center Administrator monitors at the component level, which is pools.

The alert clearance process runs every 20 minutes for each storage system that has pools with errors. Alerts are only cleared when all pools with errors in the storage system return to normal state. For example, if there are 5 pools with errors in one storage system, then all alerts will display until all the pool alerts are cleared.