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88 EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your Datacenter
Monitoring Your Datacenter
Preventing a space shortage on a host logical volume
In this example, the Windows administrator receives notification that a logical volume
on a Windows host has reached a critical space threshold: 5 percent capacity
remaining. The volume surpasses the threshold at 9 P.M., after the administrator has
already left the office for the day.
Receiving an alert in BMC PATROL
During the alert configuration phase, the Windows administrator created an alert for a
set of key application volumes, which included this volume. The administrator
configured a management policy that would propagate the alert to BMC PATROL if the
alert persisted for a certain time period (exactly for situations in which the
administrator was away from the office).
The late-shift operator whose responsibility it is to monitor BMC PATROL notices the
alert (Figure 63).
Figure 63 A Ionix ControlCenter alert in BMC PATROL
The operator pages the Windows administrator.
Diagnosing a free space alert
The Windows administrator logs in to the Console from home using terminal services
to access Ionix ControlCenter across the company’s firewall.