Monitoring hardware

You can monitor hardware devices to view and investigate warnings and critical alerts.

Ops Center Administrator monitors components in your storage systems and displays alerts on resource and storage system windows. You can also see how many components are in normal status.

Alerts are represented by the number shown on the right-hand side of the Hardware Alerts tab label. It represents the number of the hardware components which Ops Center Administrator monitors and have alerts. The number shown on the right-hand side of each hardware component tab label represents the number of the alerts in its component. The number includes errors and warnings.

The alerts are received from the storage array: one alert per component type, for a maximum of eight.

The alert clearance process runs every 20 minutes for each storage system that has components with errors. Alerts are only cleared when all components of a given type with errors in the storage system return to normal state. The exception is disks, each of which can have alerts cleared, even if other disks remain in error. Alerts for ports and processors are cleared together, so alerts are cleared only when all ports and all processors are normal.

For example, if there are five fans with alerts in one storage system, they will be cleared only when every fan alert is cleared. However, for disks, each alert is cleared as and when disk alert clearance is available.

Ops Center Administrator monitors the following components:

• Disks
• Fans
• Batteries
• Cache
• Processors
• Power supplies
• Ports
• Shared memory