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Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC Storage Systems Online Help for the metro node appliance
- Contents
- Figures
- Welcome
- Using the GUI
- Configuring GUI default settings
- Using storage hierarchy maps
- Viewing system status
- Monitoring the system
- Performance
- The Performance Monitoring dashboard
- Viewing a chart
- Modifying a dashboard layout
- Creating a custom dashboard
- Removing a chart
- Moving a chart
- Back-end Bandwidth Chart
- Back-end Throughput chart
- Back-end Errors chart
- Back-end Latency chart
- CPU utilization chart
- Heap Usage chart
- Front-end Queue Depth chart
- Front-end Bandwidth chart
- Front-end Latency chart
- Front-end Throughput chart
- Front-end Aborts chart
- Write Latency Delta chart
- WAN Port Performance chart
- WAN Latency chart
- Rebuild Status dashboard
- Virtual Volumes dashboard
- Front End Ports dashboard
- System Health
- Performance
- Provisioning storage
- Guide
- Provisioning from storage volumes
- Provision Job properties
- Distributed storage
- Storage arrays
- Storage volumes
- Devices
- About devices
- Using the Devices view
- The Create Devices wizard
- The Add Local/Remote Mirror wizards
- Viewing the status of IO to a device
- Creating a device
- Renaming a device
- Deleting a device
- Mirroring a device
- Device status
- Device component properties
- Device properties
- Distributed device properties
- Add capacity to virtual volumes
- Extent properties
- Extents
- Distributed devices
- About distributed devices
- The Distributed Devices view
- The Create Distributed Device from Claimed Storage Volumes wizard
- Distributed device rule sets
- Changing the rule set for a distributed device
- Creating a distributed device
- Deleting a distributed device
- Renaming a distributed device
- Distributed Device status
- Virtual volumes
- About virtual volumes
- The Virtual Volumes view
- The Distributed Virtual Volumes view
- Creating a virtual volume
- About virtual volume expansion
- Expanding a virtual volume using storage volumes
- Enabling or disabling remote access for a volume
- Manually assigning LUN numbers to volumes
- Deleting a volume
- Renaming a volume
- Tearing down a volume
- Virtual Volume status
- Pool properties
- Virtual volume properties
- Show ITLs dialog box
- Logical unit properties
- ALUA Support field values
- Visibility field values
- Extent or Device mobility job properties
- Metro node port properties
- Storage array properties
- Storage view properties
- Storage volume properties
- Create Virtual Volumes dialog box
- Consistency group
- About consistency groups
- Using the Consistency Groups view
- Distributed Consistency Groups view
- Create Consistency Group wizard
- Types of consistency groups
- Creating a consistency group
- Adding a volume to a consistency group
- Removing a volume from a consistency group
- Deleting a consistency group
- Consistency Group status
- Consistency group properties
- Step 1: Select or create a consistency group for the virtual volume
- Step 1: Create a consistency group
- Step 2: Select volume options
- Step 3: Select a storage pool
- Step 3: Select a pool for each mirror on the second cluster
- Step 3: Select a pool for each mirror in the cluster
- Step3: Create thin virtual volumes
- Select a storage view for the virtual volume(s) (optional)
- Step 5: Review your selections
- Step 6: View results
- Step 2: Select volume options
- Step 2: Select volume options
- Step 3: Select a storage volume to create the virtual volume
- Step 3: Select a source and target storage volume
- Step 3: Create thin volumes
- Step 3: Select a target storage volume on the remote cluster
- Step 3: Select target storage on the remote cluster
- Step 6: View results
- Show Logical Units
- Exporting storage
- Initiators and metro node ports
- Storage views
- About storage views
- Using the Storage Views screen
- The Create Storage View wizard
- Creating a storage view
- Deleting a storage view
- Renaming a storage view
- Adding or removing initiators from a storage view
- Adding virtual volumes to a storage view
- Removing virtual volumes from a storage view
- Adding or removing metro node ports from a storage view
- Storage view status
- Storage group properties
- Director properties
- Cluster properties
- Moving data
- Mobility
- Move Data Within Cluster
- Move Data Across Clusters
- Create Mobility Job wizards
- Mobility job transfer size
- Creating a mobility job
- Viewing job details
- Committing a job
- Canceling a job
- Pausing a job
- Resuming a job
- Removing the record of a job
- Changing a job transfer size
- Searching for a job
- Mobility job status
- Notifications
Notifications
This section describes about the notifications which is a consolidated area of all appliance alerts and events for the cluster.
Topics:
• Platform alerts view
• Hardware alerts view
• Configure alerts view
• Platform view properties
• Hardware view properties
Platform alerts view
The PLATFORM ALERTS view lists all platform alerts generated through notification service for a corresponding NSFW event .
By default, platform alerts are sorted in descending order by the last updated time. With the Show/Hide Columns drop-down
, you can select all columns or only required columns to show in a table.
This screen shows the following information about platform alerts:
Column
Description
Severity Indicates the urgency of alert:
CRITICAL-A condition has occurred that can obstruct the functionality or can lead to failure of the other
components.
ERROR-An error has occurred that has a significant impact on the system and must be rectified
immediately.
WARNING-An error has occurred that you should be aware of but does not have a significant impact on
the system. For example, a component is working, but its performance may not be optimum.
INFO-An event has occurred that does not impact system functions. No action is required.
CLEAR-When a corresponding clear event is generated for the raised alert, and the issue is resolved at
the system level.
Message Indicates the cause of an event for which the alert is generated.
Scope Represents whether it is a cluster-level or a director-level alert.
State Represents the state of the alert-OPEN, CLOSED, or ACK state.
OPEN-The alert is active and no action has been taken on it. The alert generating condition still persists
in the system. If the system administrator wants to reopen to pay attention to that event, the alert
status can also be changed to open from acknowledge state.
● To reopen an alert: Select the checkbox corresponding to the alert, and then click OPEN.
ACK-After you view an alert and understand its contents, you can acknowledge that you have read
through the alert message.
● To acknowledge an alert: Select the checkbox corresponding to the alert, and then click
ACKNOWLEDGE .
CLOSED-Once the problem condition is resolved, the event state is updated as closed. Once closed the
alerts cannot be reopened.
● To close an alert: Select the checkbox corresponding to the alert, and then click CLOSE.
Condition ID Indicates unique ID of all defined alert definitions .
Component System component that caused the event. Intended for service personnel.
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