HP StorageWorks Reference Information Storage System V1.1 Administrator Guide (February 2005)

Tour of PCC user interface Chapter 2: Platform Control Center
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See Also
• Hard and soft status conditions , on page 2-15, for information about
relative confidence of host and service status values.
• Monitoring and reporting tool , on page 2-11, for information about deter-
mining status values.
Hard and soft status conditions
Host or service status values are reported in alerts and other events as having
a
HARD or SOFT status condition (also referred to in monitoring views as
“state type”). See, for example, the following views:
• Alerts Histogram view , on page 2-94
• Alerts History view , on page 2-97
• Alerts Summary view , on page 2-100
• Event Log view , on page 2-92
UNREACHABLE Brown P arent cloud router of the UNREACHABLE smart cell or
HTTP portal is DOWN.
Table 2-5: Service status values
Status Description
PENDING Gray Service has not been checked for status since PCC
monitoring started.
OK Green Service is functioning normally.
WARNING Yellow Service might have a problem.
UNKNOWN Orange Service status cannot be determined.
CRITICAL Red Service is not functioning correctly. Data storage and/or
search and retrieval are adversely affected.
Table 2-4: Host status values (continued)
Status Color Description