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1 Monitoring Your System Overview This chapter includes: Topics: • Overview Overview This document describes the functionality available in the PowerStore Manager to monitor, and optimize various PowerStore appliances. Monitoring features PowerStore Manager provides the following features and functionality to monitor your system: • Events to notify when there are changes in the system. • Alerts to inform you that an event occurred that requires your attention. • Capacity charts display current capacity usage of a PowerStore cluster and resources. • Performance charts indicate the system health so you can anticipate 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 times. Understanding how the system capacity is being used can: • Alert you to the resources that are the top consumers of storage space. • Help you to balance the load across your available storage. • Indicate when you may need to add more storage to your cluster. Finally, should an event occur that requires further troubleshooting, PowerStore has a mechanism for collecting support materials which helps analyze and resolve the issue. Monitoring Your System Overview 5

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Monitoring Your System Overview
This chapter includes:
Topics:
•
Overview
Overview
This document describes the functionality available in the PowerStore Manager to monitor, and optimize various PowerStore appliances.
Monitoring features
PowerStore Manager provides the following features and functionality to monitor your system:
•
Events to notify when there are changes in the system.
•
Alerts to inform you that an event occurred that requires your attention.
•
Capacity charts display current capacity usage of a PowerStore cluster and resources.
•
Performance charts indicate the system health so you can anticipate 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 times.
Understanding how the system capacity is being used can:
•
Alert you to the resources that are the top consumers of storage space.
•
Help you to balance the load across your available storage.
•
Indicate when you may need to add more storage to your cluster.
Finally, should an event occur that requires further troubleshooting, PowerStore has a mechanism for collecting support materials which
helps analyze and resolve the issue.
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