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Table 2. Component Severity
Severity Component Status
Normal/OK — The component is working as expected.
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.
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Determining The Health Status For Storage Components
Storage Properties And Current Activity
The Information/Conguration 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) rmware version.
The State and Progress properties display the current activity of a component. For example, an oine physical disk displays the Oine
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.
Quick Access To Storage Status And Tasks
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