Using The San Status Page; Alarms And Events Overview - HP StoreVirtual 4000 User Manual

Customizing the SAN Status Page layout
Customize the layout of the SAN Status Page to highlight the information most important to you.
All customizations are retained when the CMC is closed and restarted.
Drag-and-drop content panes to change their position on the page. The layout is three columns by
default. To rearrange content panes, drag a content pane and drop it on another content pane.
The two panes switch places. Move all the panes to a two-column layout, re-arrange the three-column
layout, or create more than three columns by clicking and dragging a pane to the top right corner
of the page.
Minimize and expand panes to control which information is given priority. As priorities change,
change which content panes are minimized and expanded.

Using the SAN Status Page

The SAN Status page includes the following features to help you customize the view of the page,
and manage the SAN. Buttons to use these features are located on the SAN Status Page menu bar
and on individual content panes.
Table 28 SAN Status Page features
Feature
Refresh
Link to
selected item
Dock/Undock
Log in to a
management
group
Create a new
management
group

Alarms and events overview

Use alarms and events to monitor your SAN. The SAN/iQ software monitors over 400 events.
You can configure event notification using email, SNMP, or both. The CMC displays the following
types of alarms and events, based on their severity:
Informational—Provides status information about user activities (such as, creating a volume)
and system actions and status (such as, a storage system is up). These types of events do not
84 Monitoring the SAN
Icon Function
Click Refresh when the button shows "Updates Pending." When the SAN Status
Page is up-to-date, the Refresh button is greyed out.
When reviewing information in the content panes, many items will display an
arrow to the left of the item when you hover the mouse over the item. When you
click an arrow, it opens the page for the selected item, or in a few cases, the page
for the most closely related category. For example, when you click the arrow next
to any of the Best Practice Summary items, the page for the management group
containing those Best Practice items is displayed. Hovering over the management
groups listed in content panes displays a tool tip containing the management group
name, status, number of storage systems and the number of clusters.
Dock and undock the Status Page or individual content panes from the CMC. If
the Status Page or a content pane is undocked when the CMC is closed, it will be
undocked when the CMC is started again. If the Status Page is undocked, and you
close the CMC, when you open it next time, you must log into the management
groups to retrieve the information for the Status Page. Use the button on the Status
Page toolbar to log in to the management groups.
Click to open a list of management groups from which to select the one you want
to log in to.
Click to open the Management Groups, Clusters, and Volumes wizard.