User's Manual

Quick Access To Storage Status And Tasks

This section describes various methods to determine the status or health of the storage components on

your system and how to quickly launch the available controller tasks.

Related Links

Storage Health

Hot Spare Protection Policy

Storage Component Severity

Storage Properties And Current Activity

Alerts Or Events

Monitoring Disk Reliability On RAID Controllers

Using Alarms To Detect Failures

Using Enclosure Temperature Probes

Rescanning To Update Storage Configuration Changes

Time Delay In Displaying Configuration Changes

Storage Health

The Storage Dashboard displays the combined status for each controller and lower-level storage

components. For example, if the health of the storage system has been compromised due to a degraded

enclosure, both the enclosure Health and the controller severity on the Storage Dashboard display a

yellow exclamation mark to indicate a Warning severity. If a controller on the Storage Dashboard displays

a Warning or Critical status, perform the following actions to investigate the cause:

• Click Check Alert Log to display the Alerts Log. Review the Alert Log for alerts relating to the status of

the controller and its lower-level components. The Check Alert Log link is only displayed when the

controller displays a Warning or Critical status.

• Select the controller and investigate the status of the lower-level components. For more information,

see Storage Component Severity.

• Click the virtual disk that is in degraded state to display the Physical Disk Properties page.

NOTE: The virtual disk link is displayed only if the physical disks that are part of the virtual disk,

are in a Warning or Critical state.

For more information on how the status of lower-level components is rolled up into the status displayed

for the controller, see Determining The Health Status For Storage Components.