Managing unmonitored hosts

IBM Storage Insights Pro creates and updates unmonitored hosts automatically after it probes storage systems. It uses information about host connections on storage systems to create the unmonitored hosts. It doesn't monitor direct-attached storage (DAS) or local disks on hosts.

IBM Storage Insights Pro only: You subscribe to IBM Storage Insights Pro to monitor unmonitored hosts. This function is not available in IBM Storage Insights. For a list of functions that are available in each version, see IBM Storage Insights free vs IBM Storage Insights Pro.

Depending on your storage environment, IBM Storage Insights Pro might not model all of the hosts in your environment correctly. For example, IBM Storage Insights Pro might identify six host connections and create an unmonitored host for each host connection. However, in your environment, these six host connections represent one host computer. In this case, you need to merge the six unmonitored hosts into one unmonitored host.

Similarly, IBM Storage Insights Pro might create a single unmonitored host from a group of host connections that appear to be related. However, in your environment, each of these host connections represents a separate host computer. In this case, you can separate the unmonitored host into multiple unmonitored hosts, one for each of the hosts in your environment.

Important: IBM Storage Insights Pro doesn't monitor the direct-attached storage (DAS) or local disks on hosts. Instead, it displays information about the host connections on monitored storage systems, where each connection is automatically added as an unmonitored host.

Note: After separating hosts, any existing alert will only affect the primary host. Similarly, any group membership will only remain for the primary host. The separated hosts need to be reconfigured after the separation action.