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Dell EMC PowerStore Monitoring Your System Version 3.x July 2022 Rev. A03 - Dell PowerStore 1200T | EMC PowerStore Monitoring Your System - Page 2
of your product. CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem. WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death. © 2020 - 2022 Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. Dell - Dell PowerStore 1200T | EMC PowerStore Monitoring Your System - Page 3
for a volume...19 Change performance policy for multiple volumes 19 Working with performance charts...20 Generating performance metrics archives...22 Chapter 5: Collecting System Data 23 Support materials collection...23 Collect support materials...23 Contents 3 - Dell PowerStore 1200T | EMC PowerStore Monitoring Your System - Page 4
https:// www.dell.com/powerstoredocs. ● Troubleshooting For information about products, software updates, licensing, and service, go to https://www.dell.com/support and locate the appropriate product support page. ● Technical support For technical support and service requests, go to https://www.dell - Dell PowerStore 1200T | EMC PowerStore Monitoring Your System - Page 5
problems before they occur. Optimizing features and functionality As you monitor the system, alert notifications provide a mechanism to respond to the issue and reduce troubleshooting occur that requires further troubleshooting, PowerStore has a mechanism for collecting support materials which helps - Dell PowerStore 1200T | EMC PowerStore Monitoring Your System - Page 6
logging Alerts and events Events provide information about changes to the system. Alerts are events that require attention. Most alerts indicate that there is a problem with the system. The system displays ongoing alerts in the dashboard on the Alerts card. You can also view and monitor alerts for - Dell PowerStore 1200T | EMC PowerStore Monitoring Your System - Page 7
to disable alert notifications during specific procedures, for example, during a software upgrade or a support procedure. Steps 1. On the Settings page, select Disable Support Notifications in the Support section. 2. Select the appliance for which you want to suspend notifications and click Modify - Dell PowerStore 1200T | EMC PowerStore Monitoring Your System - Page 8
You can configure your system to send alert information to up to 10 designated SNMP Managers (trap destinations). NOTE: Only notifications are supported. The authoritative Local Engine ID used for SNMPv3 messages is given as a hexadecimal string. It is discovered and added automatically. NOTE: To - Dell PowerStore 1200T | EMC PowerStore Monitoring Your System - Page 9
of the health check result Status The health check result (Passed/failed) Category The health check category (Configured Resource/Hardware/Software Services) Appliance The appliance for which the health check item was performed Node The node for which the health check item was performed - Dell PowerStore 1200T | EMC PowerStore Monitoring Your System - Page 10
Remote logging The storage system supports sending audit log messages to a maximum of two hosts. The hosts must be accessible from the storage system , under Security, select Remote Logging. For more information on remote logging, refer to PowerStore Security Configuration Guide. 10 Managing Alerts - Dell PowerStore 1200T | EMC PowerStore Monitoring Your System - Page 11
storage needs of a cluster or appliance. Also, the trending and predictive metrics can be shared with the Dell EMC Support Center when PowerStore is configured with Support Assist. These metrics provide intelligent insight on how capacity is being used and help to predict future capacity needs - Dell PowerStore 1200T | EMC PowerStore Monitoring Your System - Page 12
Table 2. Capacity charts refresh intervals Granularity Level Last 24 hours Last month Last 2 years Refresh Interval 5 minutes 1 hour 1 day The following table displays the retention periods for each timescale and the resources to which they apply: Table 3. Real-time capacity data retention - Dell PowerStore 1200T | EMC PowerStore Monitoring Your System - Page 13
such as appliance capacity, and health. You can also choose to manually migrate volumes, or volume groups, based on your own calculations, when appliance is approaching capacity. Migration is not supported for file systems. Migration is supported within a single cluster with multiple appliances. - Dell PowerStore 1200T | EMC PowerStore Monitoring Your System - Page 14
deduplication, compression, and thin provisioning. Refer to Data Savings features for details. Data Savings features Data savings metrics are based on the automated inline data services that are provided with PowerStore. 14 Monitoring Capacity - Dell PowerStore 1200T | EMC PowerStore Monitoring Your System - Page 15
the data is written to the storage drives. The automated inline data services include: ● Data reduction, which consists of deduplication and compression. capacity. The drive usage that is saved by these data services results in cost savings and consistent, predictable high performance, regardless - Dell PowerStore 1200T | EMC PowerStore Monitoring Your System - Page 16
Thin provisioning allows multiple storage resources to subscribe to a common storage capacity. Therefore, it allows organizations to purchase less storage capacity up front, and increase available drive capacity on an on-demand basis, according to actual storage usage. While the system allocates - Dell PowerStore 1200T | EMC PowerStore Monitoring Your System - Page 17
help you monitor the health of your system, anticipate problems before they occur, and reduce troubleshooting times. You can use the PowerStore Manager, REST listed in the Metric Collection Configuration window (Settings > Support > Metric Collection Configuration. You can change the granularity - Dell PowerStore 1200T | EMC PowerStore Monitoring Your System - Page 18
object performance Use the PowerStore Manager to compare performance metrics of objects of the same type. You can compare performance metrics to help troubleshoot system performance-related issues. You can select two or more objects from the respective lists of the following objects: 18 Monitoring - Dell PowerStore 1200T | EMC PowerStore Monitoring Your System - Page 19
● volumes ● volume groups ● file systems ● hosts ● host groups ● virtual volumes ● virtual machines ● appliances ● ports Selecting More Actions > Compare Performance Metrics displays the performance charts of the selected objects. See Working with performance charts for details on how to use the - Dell PowerStore 1200T | EMC PowerStore Monitoring Your System - Page 20
Working with performance charts You can work with the performance charts to customize the display. Print performance charts, or export the performance data to display in an alternative application. A performance summary for the current time period is always displayed at the top of the Performance - Dell PowerStore 1200T | EMC PowerStore Monitoring Your System - Page 21
Figure 3. Appliance/node performance chart 1. Select whether to view the Overall or File performance of a cluster. 2. Select the metric category to display from the Category list. A chart is displayed for each appliance and node that are selected in the Show/Hide list. 3. Select or clear the - Dell PowerStore 1200T | EMC PowerStore Monitoring Your System - Page 22
download the generated archives. You can use the gathered information to analyze and troubleshoot performance-related issues. Steps 1. Select the Settings icon and then select Metrics Archives in the Support section. 2. Select Generate Metrics Archive and confirm to initiate the process. A progress - Dell PowerStore 1200T | EMC PowerStore Monitoring Your System - Page 23
materials collection uses the essentials profile. Use the svc_dc service script to collect support materials for other profiles. See the PowerStore Service Scripts Guide for more information about the svc_dc service script and the available profiles. NOTE: The system can run only one collection - Dell PowerStore 1200T | EMC PowerStore Monitoring Your System - Page 24
want the system to automatically send the collection to support when the job completes. This option is only enabled when remote support through Secure Remote Services is enabled on the system. You can also send the collection to support at a later time. 7. Click Start. Data collection is initiated
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Dell EMC PowerStore
Monitoring Your System
Version 3.x
July 2022
Rev. A03