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78 EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your Datacenter
Monitoring Your Datacenter
Identifying and diagnosing loss of signal for a switch port
This example demonstrates how a storage administrator uses Ionix ControlCenter to
respond to a Loss of Signal alert for a switch port. In this example, a company has
already defined a process for problem notification and resolution that allows the
administrator to quickly identify, diagnose, and resolve the issue.
The port for which the alert has triggered is critical to the company’s business
operations, so the administrator set the Loss of Signal alert for the switch port to Fatal
during the Ionix ControlCenter implementation. They also set a monitoring schedule
that ensured the administrator would receive notification within 15 minutes when a
problem occurred.
Receiving the switch port alert
While exploring the properties of some file systems in the Ionix ControlCenter
Console, the storage administrator notices a new switch port alert in the Alerts view
(Figure 52 on page 78).
Figure 52 Switch port loss of signal alert