HP XP P9000 Business Copy User Guide (AV400-96573, July 2013)

6 Monitoring and maintaining the system
This chapter provides information and instructions for monitoring and maintaining the BC system.
Monitoring the system
Monitoring helps you keep track of pairs and volumes and their current and past conditions.
Monitoring should be an ongoing activity. This section provides information for the following:
• “Monitoring pair activity, status ” (page 53). Status definitions, permitted operations for each
status, and permitted operations for L1 and L2 pairs are included.
• “Monitoring pair, volume details” (page 57).
• “Monitoring synchronous rates” (page 57).
• “Monitoring consistency groups” (page 57).
• “Monitoring reserve volumes” (page 58).
• “Monitoring a pair’s operation history ” (page 58).
Monitoring pair activity, status
Monitoring the BC system is necessary to maintain your pairs.
Each operation requires a specific status or statuses. When you want to perform a pair command,
first check the pair’s status.
Pair-status changes when an operation is performed. Check status to see that pairs are operating
correctly and that status is changing to the appropriate state during and after the operation.
Monitoring should be repeated frequently. Email notifications of problems in pair operations can
be set up using RWC.
1. In the tree, click Replications > Local Replications.
2. In the Pairs tab, locate the pair whose status you want to review.
3. Review pair status in the Status column.
You can view license information in the Summary section.
You can view more details for a selected pair by clicking More Actions > View Pair Properties. For
more information about the fields, see “Monitoring pair, volume details” (page 57).
Related information
• “Pair status definitions” (page 53)
• “RAID Manager pair status names” (page 54)
• “Status, pair operations permitted ” (page 55)
• “Status for L1, L2 pairs and operations permitted” (page 55)
• “Status of unaffected S-VOLs, operations permitted ” (page 57)
Pair status definitions
Pair status descriptions are provided in the following table. Click Refresh View for the most current
data.
Monitoring the system 53