HP StorageWorks Reference Information Storage System V1.0 Administrator Guide (May 2004)

Tour of the PCC User Interface Chapter 2: Persist Control Center
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Views for Common Tasks
The following table lists the views for common system administration tasks.
These are some of the views you will become most familiar with.
Table 2-1: Views to Use for Common Tasks
To do this . . . Use this view . . .
Check system health . Status Summary , page 2-11 and the frst
item in the PCC left menu
If everything is green, the system is healthy.
If anything is red, click it to zoom in and
examine the problem.
Check system performance
. System Status , page 2-14 and the second
item in the PCC left menu
High store and indexing rates are good. Low
query times are good. You can zoom in on
an hourly period by clicking the period in
the Last 24 Hours bar.
Check smart
cell health/performance . Smart Cell Groups for Domain , page 2-112
Check status of backups.
Backup Status , page 2-18
Clone a smart cell (copy the data).
SmartCell Cloning , page 2-91
Monitor system alerts
. Alert History , page 2-64
Configure periodic email reports of
system status and performance.
EmailReporter , page 2-44
Enable automatic email
notifications
for important system events, such as
host/service problems and recoveries.
Nagios Info , page 2-39
Communicate problems, instructions,
and so on as comments (and read co-
workers’ comments).
Comments , page 2-36
Start, stop, and restart servers on the
system.
Application Manager , page 2-76
Monitor, start, and stop replication
for domains.
Replication , page 2-78