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
• User interface components , on page 2-3, for more information about the
left menu
• Displaying the Smart Cell Groups for Domain view , on page 2-23, for
information about a commonly used view that is inaccessible from the
left menu
Monitoring and reporting tool
PCC monitors the system and reports on its health and activity. PCC provides
reports on:
• system health (status)
• system performance
• smart cell states
Hosts in the system (and their services) are organized into groups of the same
type, called
host groups . For example, to look at all hosts of type smart cell,
display the status of the host group
Smart Cells .
PCC refers to the behind-the-scenes monitoring functions and the user
interface reporting the findings. In both roles, the system uses software
provided by Nagios,
www.nagios.org . (PCC is part of the system it monitors, so
it monitors itself, as well. See
Nagios Info view , on page 2-68, and Nagios
Stats view
, on page 2-71.)
Monitoring and reporting methods
System monitoring is reported online with a web-based (HTML) user interface
and offline by email to selected contacts. Email reporting provides a subset of
information provided online.
All Warnings
view
View exceptions (warnings) for the system. 2-120
Table 2-2: Views accessible from left menu (continued)
Left menu item Description Page