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Chapter 5
Monitoring
Introduction
Monitoring activities involve the following:
• Monitoring events (messages) sent by various servers to the client
workstation(s)
• Monitoring controller activity; reviewing controller configuration and
other information
• Reviewing physical device and logical drive information and locating
arrays
• Viewing Bad Block Table information and Request Sense Data
• Monitoring and managing SCSI and Fibre enclosure information
• Monitoring the performance of drives and controllers; reviewing
historical performance data (Statistics View and Performance Analysis)
• Monitoring the status of ongoing processes, such as initialization,
rebuild, consistency check, and expanding capacity of an array
• Monitoring the status of an Intelligent Battery Backup Unit (BBU), and
recharging/reconditioning the battery if needed (External and new PCI
controllers only)
Event Monitoring
Global Array Manager Server and the Workstation Array Manager driver
subcomponent monitor activity and performance of all devices and
controllers attached to the server. When an identified activity occurs which
results in an “event” (whether severe, such as a hard disk failure, or
informational, such as assignment of a drive to hot spare status), the event is
sent to selected workstations running GAM Client/WSAM.
Events are displayed in the Log Information Viewer. An “event” can be any
of the following:
• Server attach and detach (Guest, User, and Administrator).