Users Guide

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

Time Delay In Displaying Conguration Changes

Setting the Remaining Rated Write Endurance Threshold

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.