6.0 HP X9720 Network Storage System Administrator Guide (AW549-96034, December 2011)

8 Monitoring cluster operations
Monitoring the X9720 Network Storage System status
The X9720 storage monitoring function gathers X9720 system status information and generates
a monitoring report. The X9000 management console displays status information on the dashboard.
This section describes how to the use the CLI to view this information.
Monitoring intervals
The monitoring interval is set by default to 15 minutes (900 seconds). You can change the interval
setting by using the following command to change the <interval_in_seconds> variable:
ibrix_host_tune -C
vendorStorageHardwareMonitoringReportInterval=<interval_in_seconds>
NOTE: The storage monitor will not run if the interval is set to less than 10 minutes.
Viewing storage monitoring output
Use the following command to view the status of the X9720 system:
ibrix_vs -i -n <storagename>
To obtain the storage name, run the ibrix_vs -l command. For example:
# ibrix_vs -l
NAME TYPE IP PROXYIP
----- ---- ---------- -------
x303s exds 172.16.1.1
Monitoring the status of file serving nodes
The dashboard on the management console GUI displays information about the operational status
of file serving nodes, including CPU, I/O, and network performance information.
To view status from the CLI, use the ibrix_server -l command. This command provides CPU,
I/O, and network performance information and indicates the operational state of the nodes, as
shown in the following sample output:
<installdirectory>/bin/ibrix_server -l
SERVER_NAME STATE CPU(%) NET_IO(MB/s) DISK_IO(MB/s) BACKUP HA
----------- ------------ ------ ------------ ------------- ------ --
node1 Up, HBAsDown 0 0.00 0.00 off
node2 Up, HBAsDown 0 0.00 0.00 off
File serving nodes can be in one of three operational states: Normal, Alert, or Error. These states
are further broken down into categories that are mostly related to the failover status of the node.
The following table describes the states.
DescriptionState
Up: Operational.Normal
Up-Alert: Server has encountered a condition that has been logged. An event will appear in the Status
tab of the management console GUI, and an email notification may be sent.
Alert
Up-InFailover: Server is powered on and visible to the management console, and the management
console is failing over the server’s segments to a standby server.
Up-FailedOver: Server is powered on and visible to the management console, and failover is complete.
Down-InFailover: Server is powered down or inaccessible to the management console, and the
management console is failing over the server's segments to a standby server.
Error
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