Administrator Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerVault ME4 Series Storage System Administrator’s Guide
- Contents
- Getting started
- New user setup
- Configure and provision a new storage system
- Using the PowerVault Manager interface
- System concepts
- About virtual and linear storage
- About disk groups
- About RAID levels
- About ADAPT
- About SSDs
- About SSD read cache
- About spares
- About pools
- About volumes and volume groups
- About volume cache options
- About thin provisioning
- About automated tiered storage
- About initiators, hosts, and host groups
- About volume mapping
- About operating with a single controller
- About snapshots
- About copying volumes
- About reconstruction
- About quick rebuild
- About performance statistics
- About firmware updates
- About managed logs
- About SupportAssist
- About CloudIQ
- About configuring DNS settings
- About replicating virtual volumes
- About the Full Disk Encryption feature
- About data protection with a single controller
- Working in the Home topic
- Guided setup
- Provisioning disk groups and pools
- Attaching hosts and volumes in the Host Setup wizard
- Overall system status
- Configuring system settings
- Managing scheduled tasks
- Working in the System topic
- Viewing system components
- Systems Settings panel
- Resetting host ports
- Rescanning disk channels
- Clearing disk metadata
- Updating firmware
- Changing FDE settings
- Configuring advanced settings
- Changing disk settings
- Changing system cache settings
- Configuring partner firmware update
- Configuring system utilities
- Using maintenance mode
- Restarting or shutting down controllers
- Working in the Hosts topic
- Working in the Pools topic
- Working in the Volumes topic
- Viewing volumes
- Creating a virtual volume
- Creating a linear volume
- Modifying a volume
- Copying a volume or snapshot
- Abort a volume copy
- Adding volumes to a volume group
- Removing volumes from a volume group
- Renaming a volume group
- Remove volume groups
- Rolling back a virtual volume
- Deleting volumes and snapshots
- Creating snapshots
- Resetting a snapshot
- Creating a replication set from the Volumes topic
- Initiating or scheduling a replication from the Volumes topic
- Manage replication schedules from the Volumes topic
- Working in the Mappings topic
- Working in the Replications topic
- About replicating virtual volumes in the Replications topic
- Replication prerequisites
- Replication process
- Creating a virtual pool for replication
- Setting up snapshot space management in the context of replication
- Replication and empty allocated pages
- Disaster recovery
- Accessing the data while keeping the replication set intact
- Accessing the data from the backup system as if it were the primary system
- Disaster recovery procedures
- Viewing replications
- Querying a peer connection
- Creating a peer connection
- Modifying a peer connection
- Deleting a peer connection
- Creating a replication set from the Replications topic
- Modifying a replication set
- Deleting a replication set
- Initiating or scheduling a replication from the Replications topic
- Stopping a replication
- Suspending a replication
- Resuming a replication
- Manage replication schedules from the Replications topic
- About replicating virtual volumes in the Replications topic
- Working in the Performance topic
- Working in the banner and footer
- Banner and footer overview
- Viewing system information
- Viewing certificate information
- Viewing connection information
- Viewing system date and time information
- Viewing user information
- Viewing health information
- Viewing event information
- Viewing capacity information
- Viewing host information
- Viewing tier information
- Viewing recent system activity
- Other management interfaces
- SNMP reference
- Using FTP and SFTP
- Using SMI-S
- Using SLP
- Administering a log-collection system
- Best practices
- System configuration limits
- Glossary of terms
Send email notifications
Perform the following steps to send email notifications:
1. Perform one of the following to access the options in the Notifications tab:
● In the Home topic, select Action > System Settings, then click Notifications.
● In the System topic, select Action > System Settings, then click Notifications.
● In the footer, click the events panel and select Set Up Notifications.
● In the Welcome panel, select System Settings, and then click the Notifications tab.
2. Select the Email tab and ensure that the SMTP Server and SMTP Domain options are set, as described in Configure SMTP
settings on page 48.
3. Set the email notification:
● To enable email notifications, select the Enable Email Notifications check box. This action enables the notification level
and email address fields.
● To disable email notifications, clear the Enable Email Notifications check box. This action disables the notification level
and email address fields.
4. If email notification is enabled, select the minimum severity for which the system should send email notifications:
● Critical
● Critical, Error
● Critical, Error, Warning
● Critical, Error, Warning, Resolved
● Critical, Error, Warning, Resolved, Informational
5. If email notification is enabled, in one or more of the Email Address fields enter an email address to which the system should
send notifications. Each email address must use the format user-name@domain-name. Each email address can have a
maximum of 320 bytes. For example: Admin@mydomain.com or IT-team@mydomain.com.
6. Perform one of the following:
● To save your settings and continue configuring your system, click Apply.
● To save your settings and close the panel, click Apply and Close.
A confirmation panel appears.
7. Click OK.
Test email notifications settings
Perform the following steps to test email notifications settings:
1. Configure your system to send email notifications.
2. Click Test Email. A test notification is sent to the notification email addresses.
3. Verify that the test notification reached the intended recipient.
4. Click OK.
If there was an error in sending a test notification, event 611 is displayed in the confirmation.
Send notifications to SNMP trap hosts
Perform the following steps to send notifications to SNMP trap hosts:
1. Perform one of the following to access the options in the Notifications tab:
● In the Home topic, select Action > System Settings, then click Notifications.
● In the System topic, select Action > System Settings, then click Notifications.
● In the footer, click the events panel and select Set Up Notifications.
● In the Welcome panel, select System Settings, and then click the Notifications tab.
2. Select the SNMP tab. If a message near the top of the panel informs you that the SNMP service is disabled, enable the
service.
3. Select the minimum Notification Level severity for which the system should send email notifications: Critical (only); Error
(and Critical); Warning (and Error and Critical); Informational/Resolved (all); or none.
4. In the Read community field, enter the SNMP read password for your network. This password is included in traps that are
sent. This string must differ from the write-community string. The value is case-sensitive and can have a maximum of 31
bytes. It can include any character except for the following: " < >
Working in the Home topic
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