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Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC Storage Systems Online Help for the metro node appliance
- Contents
- Figures
- Welcome
- Using the GUI
- Configuring GUI default settings
- Using storage hierarchy maps
- Viewing system status
- Monitoring the system
- Performance
- The Performance Monitoring dashboard
- Viewing a chart
- Modifying a dashboard layout
- Creating a custom dashboard
- Removing a chart
- Moving a chart
- Back-end Bandwidth Chart
- Back-end Throughput chart
- Back-end Errors chart
- Back-end Latency chart
- CPU utilization chart
- Heap Usage chart
- Front-end Queue Depth chart
- Front-end Bandwidth chart
- Front-end Latency chart
- Front-end Throughput chart
- Front-end Aborts chart
- Write Latency Delta chart
- WAN Port Performance chart
- WAN Latency chart
- Rebuild Status dashboard
- Virtual Volumes dashboard
- Front End Ports dashboard
- System Health
- Performance
- Provisioning storage
- Guide
- Provisioning from storage volumes
- Provision Job properties
- Distributed storage
- Storage arrays
- Storage volumes
- Devices
- About devices
- Using the Devices view
- The Create Devices wizard
- The Add Local/Remote Mirror wizards
- Viewing the status of IO to a device
- Creating a device
- Renaming a device
- Deleting a device
- Mirroring a device
- Device status
- Device component properties
- Device properties
- Distributed device properties
- Add capacity to virtual volumes
- Extent properties
- Extents
- Distributed devices
- About distributed devices
- The Distributed Devices view
- The Create Distributed Device from Claimed Storage Volumes wizard
- Distributed device rule sets
- Changing the rule set for a distributed device
- Creating a distributed device
- Deleting a distributed device
- Renaming a distributed device
- Distributed Device status
- Virtual volumes
- About virtual volumes
- The Virtual Volumes view
- The Distributed Virtual Volumes view
- Creating a virtual volume
- About virtual volume expansion
- Expanding a virtual volume using storage volumes
- Enabling or disabling remote access for a volume
- Manually assigning LUN numbers to volumes
- Deleting a volume
- Renaming a volume
- Tearing down a volume
- Virtual Volume status
- Pool properties
- Virtual volume properties
- Show ITLs dialog box
- Logical unit properties
- ALUA Support field values
- Visibility field values
- Extent or Device mobility job properties
- Metro node port properties
- Storage array properties
- Storage view properties
- Storage volume properties
- Create Virtual Volumes dialog box
- Consistency group
- About consistency groups
- Using the Consistency Groups view
- Distributed Consistency Groups view
- Create Consistency Group wizard
- Types of consistency groups
- Creating a consistency group
- Adding a volume to a consistency group
- Removing a volume from a consistency group
- Deleting a consistency group
- Consistency Group status
- Consistency group properties
- Step 1: Select or create a consistency group for the virtual volume
- Step 1: Create a consistency group
- Step 2: Select volume options
- Step 3: Select a storage pool
- Step 3: Select a pool for each mirror on the second cluster
- Step 3: Select a pool for each mirror in the cluster
- Step3: Create thin virtual volumes
- Select a storage view for the virtual volume(s) (optional)
- Step 5: Review your selections
- Step 6: View results
- Step 2: Select volume options
- Step 2: Select volume options
- Step 3: Select a storage volume to create the virtual volume
- Step 3: Select a source and target storage volume
- Step 3: Create thin volumes
- Step 3: Select a target storage volume on the remote cluster
- Step 3: Select target storage on the remote cluster
- Step 6: View results
- Show Logical Units
- Exporting storage
- Initiators and metro node ports
- Storage views
- About storage views
- Using the Storage Views screen
- The Create Storage View wizard
- Creating a storage view
- Deleting a storage view
- Renaming a storage view
- Adding or removing initiators from a storage view
- Adding virtual volumes to a storage view
- Removing virtual volumes from a storage view
- Adding or removing metro node ports from a storage view
- Storage view status
- Storage group properties
- Director properties
- Cluster properties
- Moving data
- Mobility
- Move Data Within Cluster
- Move Data Across Clusters
- Create Mobility Job wizards
- Mobility job transfer size
- Creating a mobility job
- Viewing job details
- Committing a job
- Canceling a job
- Pausing a job
- Resuming a job
- Removing the record of a job
- Changing a job transfer size
- Searching for a job
- Mobility job status
- Notifications
Column Description
Resource It shows the actual resource for which the issue has occurred.
Count It represents the number of times the same alert is generated over the selected period. This column is
available for historical alerts only.
Event Source Represents the context of the event. For example, Virtual Volume.
Event Source ID Unique ID for the source of the event. Helps to narrow down to the final component.
Creation Date
(UTC)
Date and time when the alert is generated.
Last Updated
(UTC)
Date and time when the status of the alert is last changed.
User Notes It shows the notes which are added by user.
Events and alerts
Events provide information about changes happening to the system. Alerts are events that require attention by the system
administrator or user. Most alerts indicate that there is a problem with the system that must be rectified to attain the best
performance from the system. The system displays live and historical alerts for Platform and Hardware in the dashboard.
Live Alerts: Alerts generated within the window of last 48 hours.
Historic Alerts: Consolidated data of the generated alerts over a period of last 6 months.
Other Tasks
From the Platform alerts view, you can:
● Open-Select the acknowledged platform alerts to move in the open state.
● Acknowledge-Select the platform alerts to move in the acknowledge state.
● Close-Select the platform alerts to move in the closed state.
● Configure Alerts-Select MORE > Configure alerts. It goes to the Configure Alerts page in the notifications under
Settings.
● Disable Alerts-Select MORE > Disable alerts. It disables the selected platform alerts.
● Refresh-To refresh the page, click the
icon .
● Export-To export the page as a CSV file, click the icon.
● User Notes-To add notes in the User Notes column, click the empty cell of a selected alert, it opens the Platform Alert
Properties panel, go to the Notes property and click Add Notes, type the message and save it. An icon
is displayed once
the note is added in the properties panel.
● iDRAC GUI-To get more details on iDRAC GUI, click the iDRAC GUI link from the top-right corner.
● Director node-By default, it shows the logged in director node (for example, director-1-1-A). To change the node, select the
node from the drop-down.
NOTE:
On switching a director node, you receive an error message The token is expired or unavailable.
Please authorize certificates at "<director>" before you proceed. So, authorize the certificate
before you switch the director node to get peer node alert details.
● View historical data-To view the data, the filters are available up to 30 days. On selection of a particular filter, it displays the
data for the number of days in the filter along with the current day data (for example, on selection of 7 days filter, it displays
the data for last seven days along with the current day data). To view the data beyond 30 days, select the Customized
Dates from the drop-down.
NOTE:
The customized date filters contain the data from 00:00:00 hours start date to 23:59:59 hours end date. For
example, if the start date is selected as 1 Jul 2020 and end date as 15 Jul 2020, the user see the alerts from Jul 1
00:00:00 hours to Jul 15 23:59:59 hours.
● Platform Alerts Properties panel-To view the platform alert properties in detail, select the platform alert to open the panel,
and then you can view the properties in detail at the right side of the screen.
Notifications
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