Users Guide

• Physical Disk Or Physical Device Properties
• Physical Disk Or Physical Device Tasks
• EMM Properties
• Fan Properties
• Power Supply Properties
• Temperature Probe Properties And Tasks
• Virtual Disk Properties And Tasks
Alerts Or Events
Storage activity generates alerts or events that are displayed in the Alert Log. Some alerts indicate normal activity and are displayed for
informational purposes only. Other alerts indicate abnormal activity which must be addressed immediately. For more information about
alerts and their corrective actions, see the Server Administrator Messages Reference Guide.
Monitoring Disk Reliability On RAID Controllers
Storage Management supports Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) on physical disks that are SMART-enabled.
SMART performs predictive failure analysis on each disk and sends alerts if a disk failure is predicted. The RAID controllers check physical
disks for failure predictions and, if found, pass this information to Storage Management. Storage Management immediately displays an alert
icon on the disk. Storage Management also sends an alert to the Alert Log and the Microsoft Windows application log.
NOTE
: You may not receive SMART alerts when the I/O of a controller is paused.
Using Alarms To Detect Failures
Certain storage components have alarms which when enabled, alert you when the component fails.
Related link
Enabling The Enclosure Alarm
Enabling The Controller Alarm
Using Enclosure Temperature Probes
Physical disk enclosures have temperature probes that warn you when the enclosure has exceeded an acceptable temperature range.
Related link
Setting The Temperature Probe Values
Time Delay In Displaying Conguration Changes
When you change the storage conguration, Storage Management quickly generates SNMP traps in response to the conguration
changes. The Storage Management, Management Information Base (MIB) is also updated to reect storage conguration changes.
However, it may take up to ve minutes to update the MIB with the most recent storage conguration. For this reason, there is a time delay
of up to ve minutes between the receipt of an SNMP trap and the ability to identify the conguration changes by querying the Storage
Management MIB. This time delay is notable when creating a new virtual disk or performing an unmirror or split mirror on a RAID 1-
concatenated virtual disk.
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Quick Access To Storage Status And Tasks