HP Storage Essentials SRM 6.0 User Guide for Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition SRM Software (July 2008)

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Starting Performance Collectors
To start a collector:
1. Access the page for performance collectors (Optimize > Storage Essentials > Performance Data
Collection).
2. Click the Start button corresponding to the collector you want to start.
To start more than one collector at once, select more than one collector on the Data Collection
tab, and then click Start Collectors.
3. Set the date, time, and repeat interval for this task. For more information, see ”Editing a
Collector Schedule” on page 222.
4. If you are asked to provide a proxy host, do the following:
a. Click Browse.
b. Select a proxy host from the menu, and then click OK.
c. Click OK again to set the time for starting the collector.
d. If you do not see any hosts displayed, verify that you have the latest CIM extension version
installed and running on a host that can access the LSI storage system.
5. Click OK.
Stopping Performance Collectors
When you stop a collector, the management server stops gathering information for which the
collector is responsible. For example, if a performance collector is not running, its corresponding
statistics are no longer receiving information to display. One of the following occurs:
• If there was originally no information gathered for the statistic, no data appears for that statistic.
• If information was previously gathered for the statistic, old data appears for that statistic.
To stop a collector:
1. Access the page for performance collectors (Optimize > Storage Essentials > Performance Data
Collection).
2. Click the Stop button corresponding to the collector you want to stop.
Action Displays one of the following buttons:
• Stop - Stops the collector. The corresponding reports display only
information gathered previously. See ”Stopping Performance
Collectors” on page 219.
• Start - Starts the collector. When you start a collector, it begins
gathering information for its corresponding reports. See ”Starting
Performance Collectors” on page 219.
Table 21 About Performance Collectors (continued)
Column Heading Description