Administrator Guide

Viewing and Monitoring Storage Centers
Using the Monitoring Navigation Tree
All discovered objects and their associated dashboards can be found in the Dell Storage Center Monitoring folder in the Monitoring
navigation tree.
1. Open System Center Operations Manager (Start > All Programs > System Center [version] Operations Manager > Operations
Console).
2. Click the Monitoring button.
3. In the navigation tree, expand the Dell Storage Center Monitoring folder.
Figure 14. Storage Center Monitoring Menu
Viewing and Acknowledging Alerts
The management pack polls the Storage Manager Data Collector for Storage Center alerts and displays them in the Active Alerts pane.
SCOM administrators can then acknowledge the alerts using the SCOM console and synchronize any actions taken through the console
with the
Storage Manager Data Collector.
After an alert is acknowledged, SCOM runs the alert rule once every 150 seconds. The alert must remain in the acknowledged state in the
SCOM console for the required time period before being closed. If the alert is closed before the alert rule finishes running, the alert will not
be acknowledged in Storage Manager.
NOTE:
If the SCOM console is used as the primary console for monitoring Storage Center alerts, use the SCOM console
Acknowledge feature to acknowledge them. Acknowledging alerts using the Storage Manager client or the Windows
PowerShell Storage Manager API will not acknowledge the alert in the SCOM console.
To view and acknowledge SCOM active alerts:
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