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

7 Monitoring performance of XP and P9000 disk arrays ........................ 119
Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 119
Configuring dashboard threshold settings .................................................................................. 122
Specifying the top 20 consumers ........................................................................................ 125
Dashboard threshold metrics .................................................................................................... 126
Viewing dashboard ................................................................................................................. 128
XP/P9000 array health ..................................................................................................... 130
Dashboard statistics .......................................................................................................... 131
Component levels in the Statistics section ...................................................................... 132
Dashboard statistics and threshold metrics ..................................................................... 133
Dashboard busiest consumers ............................................................................................ 135
Dashboard charts ............................................................................................................. 137
High watermark in dashboard charts .................................................................................. 139
8 Configuring alarms and managing events ......................................... 141
Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 141
Configuring alarms and viewing alarms history .................................................................... 141
Selecting components and metrics ............................................................................................. 144
Configuring notification and monitoring settings .......................................................................... 146
Filtering records in Alarms table ......................................................................................... 147
Filtering records based on components ......................................................................... 147
Filtering records based on metrics and alarm status ........................................................ 148
Setting threshold and dispatch levels ................................................................................... 149
Configuring alarm notifications .......................................................................................... 150
Establishing scripts for alarms ............................................................................................ 153
Enabling or disabling alarms ............................................................................................. 154
Applying a template ......................................................................................................... 155
Deleting records in the Alarms table ................................................................................... 156
Searching for components ........................................................................................................ 157
Managing alarms history ......................................................................................................... 158
Understanding alarms history ............................................................................................ 159
Viewing alarm history records ............................................................................................ 160
Filtering records in Alarms History table .............................................................................. 162
Filtering based on components .................................................................................... 162
Filtering based on Alarm History filters .......................................................................... 163
Alarm History filters .................................................................................................... 163
Viewing performance graphs for components ....................................................................... 165
Viewing events ....................................................................................................................... 166
Filtering event records ....................................................................................................... 167
Deleting event records ...................................................................................................... 169
9 Managing the P9000 Performance Advisor database ......................... 171
Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 171
Database Manager screen ....................................................................................................... 172
Configuring database size ....................................................................................................... 173
Automatically increasing database size ............................................................................... 173
Manually increasing database size ..................................................................................... 174
Purging data .......................................................................................................................... 175
Manually purging data ..................................................................................................... 175
Purging data for XP or P9000 disk array ...................................................................... 176
Purging older data ..................................................................................................... 176
Automatically purging data ............................................................................................... 177
Creating and viewing Export DB CSV files ................................................................................. 178
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