Administrator Guide

Enable or Disable a Controller Indicator Light........................................................................................................... 296
Replace a Failed Cooling Fan Sensor........................................................................................................................296
Congure Back-End Ports........................................................................................................................................297
Managing IO Card Changes......................................................................................................................................297
Add a UPS to a Storage Center............................................................................................................................... 298
Updating Storage Center............................................................................................................................................... 299
Update Storage Center Software.............................................................................................................................299
Using the Storage Center Update Utility..................................................................................................................299
Shutting Down and Restarting a Storage Center........................................................................................................... 300
Shut Down All Controllers in Storage Center............................................................................................................300
Restart All Controllers in a Storage Center................................................................................................................301
Shut Down a Controller.............................................................................................................................................301
Restart a Controller.................................................................................................................................................. 301
Reset a Controller to Factory Default........................................................................................................................301
Managing Field Replaceable Units (FRU)....................................................................................................................... 302
Managing FRU Tickets.............................................................................................................................................302
11 Viewing Storage Center Information...........................................................................303
Viewing Summary Information........................................................................................................................................303
Storage Center Summary Plugins.............................................................................................................................303
Viewing Summary Information for a Storage Center................................................................................................ 304
Viewing Summary Information for Multiple Storage Centers....................................................................................305
Using the Status Plugin............................................................................................................................................306
Using the Storage Summary Plugin..........................................................................................................................308
Using the Front End IO Summary Plugin...................................................................................................................310
Using the Current Alerts Plugin..................................................................................................................................311
Using the Replication Validation Plugin......................................................................................................................312
Using the Top 10 Fastest Growing Volumes Plugin....................................................................................................312
Using the Current Threshold Alerts Plugin................................................................................................................ 312
Viewing Detailed Storage Usage Information...................................................................................................................313
View Storage Usage by Tier and RAID Type.............................................................................................................. 313
View Storage Usage by Volumes...............................................................................................................................313
View Historical Storage Usage.................................................................................................................................. 314
View a Data Progression Pressure Report.................................................................................................................315
Viewing Historical IO Performance..................................................................................................................................316
Using the IO Usage Tab............................................................................................................................................ 316
Viewing Current IO Performance.................................................................................................................................... 318
Using the Charting Tab............................................................................................................................................. 318
Conguring Chart Options..............................................................................................................................................319
Conguring User Settings for Charts....................................................................................................................... 320
Conguring Chart Settings...................................................................................................................................... 320
Congure the Storage Center Data Gathering Schedule.................................................................................................321
Exporting Usage Data.................................................................................................................................................... 322
Export Storage Usage Data......................................................................................................................................322
Export IO Usage Data.............................................................................................................................................. 322
Monitoring Storage Center Hardware.............................................................................................................................324
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