Procedure: Checking The Status Of Your System; Procedure: Getting Node Canister And System Information Using The Service Assistant - IBM Storwize V7000 Unified Problem Determination Manual

2. Click Identify at the upper left of the page to control the identify LEDs.
Procedure: Identifying which Storwize V7000 Gen1 enclosure or
canister to service
Use this procedure to identify which enclosure or canister must be serviced.
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Procedure
Use the following options to identify an enclosure. An enclosure is identified by its
ID and serial number.

Procedure: Checking the status of your system

Use this procedure to verify the status of objects in your system using the
management GUI. If the status of the object is not online, view the alerts and run
the recommended fix procedures.
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Volumes normally show offline because another object is offline. A volume is
offline if one of the MDisks that makes up the storage pool that it is in is offline.
You do not see an alert that relates to the volume; instead, the alert relates to the
MDisk. Performing the fix procedures for the MDisk enables the volume to go
online.
Procedure
Use the following management GUI functions to find a more detailed status:
v Monitoring > System
v Pools > MDisks by Pools
v Volumes > Volumes
v Monitoring > Events, and then use the filtering options to display alerts,
Procedure: Getting node canister and system information
using the service assistant
This procedure explains how to view information about the node canisters and
system using the service assistant.
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To obtain the information:
1. Log on to the service assistant.
2. View the information about the node canister to which you connected or the
The Home page shows a table of node errors that exist on the node canister and a
table of node details for the current node. The node errors are shown in priority
order.
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messages, or event types.
other node canisters in the enclosure. To change which node's information is
shown, select the node in the Change Node table of the Home page.