Monitoring Your Library - Spectra Logic Spectra T950V User Manual

Chapter 5 — Operating the Library
M
ONITORING
Overview The BlueScale user interface provides a number of tools for
monitoring the health and performance of the library, its components, and
its media. The quickest way to obtain important information is to check the
icons and bar graphs on the General Status screen (see Status Bar on
page 79). They provide at‐a‐glance information about the status of major
system components and resource usage, respectively. The icons on the
status bar provide additional system‐level status information.
The following table lists where to find additional information about the
health and performance of the library, its components, and its media.
Check...
System Messages
Performance
Metrics
Robot Utilization
Information
Drive Status
Media Lifecycle
Management
(MLM)
Drive Lifecycle
Management (DLM)
Hardware Health
Monitoring
User Privilege Requirements All users can view system messages and
view performance metrics. The user privileges required to use the other
monitoring tools depend on the tool.
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To monitor...
Events that resulted in system messages
about the library and its operation.
The performance of your library and its
drives.
The percentage of time the robotics are
being used while the library is powered
on.
The operational status, firmware level,
and cleaning status of the drives.
The usage and health of MLM‐enabled
media in the library.
Note: MLM also provides limited
health information about media that is
not MLM‐enabled.
The usage and health of the LTO drives
in the library.
The health of key library components.

Monitoring Your Library

For details, see...
Check and Respond to Messages
below

View Drive Performance Statistics
on page 150

View Power Consumption
Statistics on page 152

View Storage Density Statistics on
page 152
View Robot Utilization Information
on page 153

View Drive Status Information on
page 154

Using a Global Spare Drive on
page 355
Chapter 9 – Configuring and Using
Media Lifecycle Management,
beginning on page 245
Chapter 10 – Using Drive Lifecycle
Management, beginning on page 290
Using BlueScale Hardware Health
Monitoring on page 327
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