NOC dashboard

Monitor events and storage systems in your inventory at a glance. The Network Operations Center, NOC dashboard provides key insights and analysis about the health, capacity, and performance of your block storage in one, central location. You can create customized dashboards to selectively monitor particular storage systems.

To view the NOC dashboard, go to Dashboards > NOC. Display it on a dedicated monitor in your network operations center so you can monitor storage system changes at a glance.

The block storage systems that are being monitored are displayed in tiles or in rows on the dashboard. Call Home must be enabled on the storage systems that are monitored.

Use the Tile view to quickly access essential information about your storage systems, including the overall condition. The overall condition is determined by the most critical status that was detected for the storage system's internal resources. Storage systems with error conditions are displayed at the top of the dashboard, followed by storage systems with warning conditions.

On each tile, a snapshot of performance and capacity is displayed. Click the tile to view the following information:
  • Overview of the health of the storage system components or resources, key capacity metrics including compression savings, and key performance metrics. You can open the GUI for the storage system from the Component Health overview.
  • ( IBM Storage Insights Pro only) You can view more details about the storage system and components from the overview.
  • Notifications details and actions you can take to manage events.
  • Tickets details and actions you can take to manage tickets.
  • Properties details including editable name, location, and custom tag fields, and support information.
  • ( IBM Storage Insights Pro only) Inventory of nodes and enclosures for a SAN Volume Controller storage system, including support information, if available.

Use the Table view to evaluate the current state of capacity in your storage environment. You can view current asset and configuration information and support information for your block storage systems. You can access user-defined information such as the location and custom tag fields. Information displayed is dependent on whether Call Home is enabled and a data collector is deployed and connected. For additional information about some of the columns displayed, see Block storage systems.

Tip: For a resource inventory of your block storage, use the Resources menu. Then double-click a storage system in the list to view more detailed information. You can also add storage systems for monitoring.

Accessing the dashboard on modern UI

To view the NOC dashboard, go to Main menu > Overview. Click on the NOC option switch in the top-right corner to navigate to the NOC dashboard.

Understanding the dashboard

The NOC dashboard displays all the storage systems as individual cards, making it easy to quickly assess their status and performance. Each card provides key information at a glance such as:
  • Health status: Colored border highlights system health, red indicates a critical issue, yellow or orange represents a warning, green means the system is healthy, and grey shows that data collection has stopped.
  • System information: Displays basic system information, including the system name and model, for example, FlashSystem. The system name is clickable, and selecting it will open a detailed view of that system.
  • Performance charts: Three mini sparkline charts show real-time activity, I/O Rate (operations per second), Data Rate (throughput in MiB/s), and Response Time (latency in milliseconds per operation).
  • Deviation indicators: Shows unusual changes over the past 14 days.
  • Capacity bar: Colored progress bar gives a visual representation of the available storage space.

Working with the dashboard

The dashboard provides several ways to customize your view and navigate the data. You can filter and sort systems, and adjust the time range, for example, last 5 minutes, 12 hours, or 24 hours to analyze activity over different periods.

Clicking on any system name on the card opens its detailed view. You can also use the Block Storage drop down to access the custom dashboards or create new ones. For more information about creating custom dashboard, see Creating customized dashboards to monitor your storage.

If you want more detail on performance deviations, you can click on deviation count to open a side panel. This panel shows data for the last 14 days by default.

To keep the dashboard uncluttered, an automatic filter Hide disconnected systems is applied when more than two systems stop collecting data. In this case, disconnected systems are hidden automatically.

You cannot add or remove devices on NOC dashboard of modern UI. If you want to add or remove devices, see Add storage systems and Removing storage systems.