Users Guide

Severity Component Status
Warning/Non-critical — A probe or other monitoring device has
detected a reading for the component that is above or below the
acceptable level. The component may still be functioning, but it
could fail. The component may also be functioning in an impaired
state. Data loss is possible.
Critical/Failure/Error/Fatal — The component has either failed
or failure is imminent. The component requires immediate attention
and may need to be replaced. Data loss may have occurred.
Related concepts
Determining The Health Status For Storage Components
Storage Properties And Current Activity
The Information/Configuration page displays information regarding the storage component. These properties include details such as
the number of connectors (channels or ports) on a controller or the Enclosure Management Modules (EMM) firmware version.
The State and Progress properties display the current activity of a component. For example, an offline physical disk displays the Offline
status while the Progress property displays how close to completion an operation (such as a rebuild) is.
The following sections describe the properties for each component:
• Storage Information And Global Tasks
• Battery Properties And Tasks
• Connector Properties And Tasks
• Enclosure And Backplane Properties And Tasks
• 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.
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Quick Access To Storage Status And Tasks