HP StorageWorks 2000 Modular Smart Array Reference Guide (481599-003, August 2008)

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Monitoring System Status
This chapter describes how to use SMU to monitor your system to ensure that its
components are working properly. Topics covered in this chapter are:
■ “Displaying Status Information” on page 149
■ “Viewing the Event Log” on page 171
■ “Viewing Statistics” on page 171
■ “Displaying Notification Events” on page 178
■ “Additional Status Information” on page 179
Displaying Status Information
SMU includes many status pages that enable you to monitor the status of your
system, virtual disks, and disk drives. The top panel on many status pages includes
an icon for each virtual disk with information about the selected virtual disk below
it. For information about the virtual disk icons, see Table 1-3.
Status Summary
You see the Status Summary page when you log in to SMU. This page includes:
■ Status Message panel – Briefly describes the storage system’s overall status. If a
warning or critical condition exists, a message specifies to see a certain SMU
page for details.
■ Virtual Disk Overview panel – Shows information about existing virtual disks. To
see more detail about a virtual disk, click its icon. For a description of the virtual
disk icons, see Table 1-3.
■ Hardware Status panel – Shows the status of each controller module and the
overall status of system enclosures. To see more detail, click a status link.
■ System Panel – Shows system status and which RAID controller you are
connected to. For a description of the status icons, see “System Panel” on
page 26. To see more detail, click a status link.