HP StorageWorks P9000 Performance Advisor Software v5.3 User and Troubleshooting Guide (T1789-96322, August 2011)

• RAID Group 1–5 and RAID Group Total IO – Frontend metric
• RAID Group 1–5 and RAID Group Total MB – Frontend metric
• RAID Group 1–5 and RAID Group Sequential Read Tracks – Backend metric
If you want to configure alarm settings only on RAID group, 1–3 for the metric, RAID Group Total IO
– Frontend, select the metric as RAID Group Total IO – Frontend from the Metrics list and Passive from
the Alarms Status list. The set of RAID group records are further filtered to display only RAID group,
1–3 for the RAID Group Total IO – Frontend metric and Passive alarm status.
Click Clear Filter any time while selecting values from the filter options. It removes the current selection
and displays all the records in the Alarms table. Also, the current selection on the XP or P9000 disk
array or component in the component selection tree under Alarms is removed.
When you click Clear Filter, the Filter button is automatically disabled. To enable the Filter button,
select an XP or a P9000 disk array in the component selection tree under Alarms.
Setting threshold and dispatch levels
P9000 Performance Advisor provides three threshold levels that you can configure for a selected
component. Threshold levels are values that you set and further used by P9000 Performance Advisor
to compare the current performance value of a selected component with the set threshold values. The
first threshold is the minimum and third threshold is the maximum levels that can be set. You can also
select a threshold level as the dispatch level. P9000 Performance Advisor triggers an alarm and sends
appropriate notifications to the recipients when the current performance value of a component goes
beyond the threshold level that is selected as the dispatch level.
IMPORTANT:
• The maximum threshold that you can set is 999999.
• The Level 3 threshold value specified should be greater than the Level 2 threshold value, and the
Level 2 threshold value should be greater than the Level 1 threshold value.
• Edit is enabled only when you select the check boxes for component records, for which you want
to specify threshold and dispatch at threshold levels.
NOTE:
You can also use the Ctrl + c and Ctrl + v combination to copy and paste alarm settings from one
record to another record. Ensure that the check boxes for these records are selected, so that the latest
changes are updated when you click Edit.
To set the threshold and dispatch levels:
1. Click Alarms in the left pane.
2. Under the Alarm Configuration tab, select the check boxes for the component records, for which
you want to specify the threshold and dispatch at threshold levels.
You can also filter component records in the Alarms table. For more information, see “Filtering
records in Alarms table” on page 147.
3. Provide the threshold levels in the text boxes under Level - 1, Level - 2, and Level - 3. By default,
threshold levels are not defined for new component records.
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