Monitoring Powervault Nx3500 - Dell PowerVault NX3500 Administrator's Manual

Monitoring PowerVault NX3500

NOTE:
The information in this chapter refers to file management using the Dell
PowerVault NAS Manager. Block management and monitoring is done using Dell
PowerVault Modular Disk Storage Management (MDSM).
You can monitor the status of the Dell PowerVault NX3500 NAS clustered
system using the Monitor tab in the NAS Manager. Here, you can view the
overall status of the system on the Dashboard page, see the quotas usage
report, and receive remote replication job status reports.
To access the monitoring pages, click the Monitor tab in the Admin tabs. By
default, the Dashboard page is displayed.
Table 4-1. Monitor Tab Options
Field
Overview
Dashboard
Network Performance
Load Balancing
Over time
Client Connections
CIFS Connections
Hardware
System Validation
Description
Provides a single glance monitoring of the system.
Allows you to see network throughput for read and writes
in IOPS and MBps for last day, week, month, and year.
Allows you to see processor load, CIFS connections,
read and write throughput for each controller for last
day, week, month, and year.
Allows you to see load balancing of client connections
by protocol and controller. Lets you set the migration
policy for each protocol.
Allows you to see a list of CIFS connections.
Allows you to see the diagnostic test result of each of
the system components.
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