HP StorageWorks Reference Information Storage System V1.5 Administrator Guide (T3559-96044, June 2006)

Monitoring and r
eporting
PCC monitors the system and reports on its health and activity. PCC provides reports on:
• system health
• system perform
ance
• smart cell states
Hosts in the system (and their ser vices) are organized into groups of the same type, called host groups.
For example, to view all smart cell hosts, display the status of the host group SMARTCELL Servers in
the S ystem Sta
tus view.
Hosts and services are monitored by polling, which is set up outside the PCC, in System Insight Manager.
You can selectively enable or disable hosts and services polling.
As long as services appear to be functioning correctly (OK), the host is assumed to be healthy (UP). If
monitoring indicates a host is not functioning correctly (DOWN) , none of its services are available
(they can have any status except OK). If a service has CRITICAL status, but the host is UP, the service
probably ne
eds to be restarted.
Statuses and states
Several PCC views show current life cycle states of smart cells or status values of particular hosts or
services. Status values measure relative health, and can be associated with a status condition conveying
a measure of confidence in the reported value.
For example, the health of a smart cell in the SUSPENDED life cycle state can be reported with the
HEALTHY host status value, which means the RISS operating system and applications are functioning as
they should be.
PCC views often use status and state loosely and interchangeably when referring to hosts and services.
State is always used when referring to smart cell life cycle states, but status and state are both used when
reporting smar t cell health, since smart cells are regarded as a host like any other. PCC views also
refer to status conditions as states or state types.
Smart cell life cycle states
Table6Smartcelllifecyclestates
Life cycle state Definition
Impor ta nce
ASSIGNED
The cell is assigned to a domain.
The cell is available for document storage, search, and
retrieval. If backup is enabled, cell data can be ba cked
up.
normal
CLOSED
The cell is full.
It is available for document search and retrieval, but not
storage. If ba ckup is enabled, all cell data was backed
up before the cell entered this state.
normal
COMPLETE_PROCES SING
Data indexing is being completed.
The cell is full. It is available for document search and
retrieval, but not storage. If backup is enabled, cell d ata
can be backed up.
maintenance
BACKING_UP
The cell is available for document search and retrieval.
If backup is enabled, the cell is backing up all its
indexes and new data that has not yet been backed up.
maintenance
SYNC_WAIT
The cell is available for document search and retrieval.
maintenance
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