Departments

Monitor the capacity and space usage of departments and subdepartments and the performance of the applications and the application subcomponents that are added to departments and subdepartments.

To monitor the capacity and space usage of departments and subdepartments and the performance of the applications and application subcomponents, you create the departments and subdepartments and then add the applications and application subcomponents to the departments and subdepartments.

You can view the performance of the applications that are associated with all of the subdepartments on the Overview page for the department. You can view the performance of applications that are associated with a subdepartment on the Overview page for that subdepartment.

Information about departments

The following information is shown for each department and subdepartment that is monitored by IBM Storage Insights Pro:

Tip: You can add or edit some of the properties of the application after you create it such as the name, type, and subtype. Right-click the application and click View Properties. Click Edit and make your changes.

Applications: The name of the application that belongs to a particular department. If there is more than one application, the number of applications is displayed.
Block Capacity (GiB): The total amount of block-level storage space that is allocated to applications and subdepartments in the department.
Custom tag 1, 2, and 3: Any user-defined text that is associated with a department. This text can be included as a report column when you generate reports for departments. To edit the custom tags for a department or add a custom tag, right-click it, select View Properties and click Edit.
File Capacity (GiB): The total amount of file-level storage space that is allocated to applications and subdepartments in the department.
Name: The user-defined name that was assigned to the department when it was created. For example, Investments. To edit the name for a department, right-click it, select View Properties and click Edit.
Object Capacity (GiB): The total amount of storage space that is used by all the vaults in the department and, if applicable, in the department’s subcomponents. This value does not include space that is reserved for disk overhead and dispersal overhead.
Available for IBM Cloud Object Storage.

Subdepartments: The name of the subdepartment that belongs to the department. If there is more than one subdepartment, the number of subdepartments is displayed.

Subtype: An extra category that you can use to distinguish the department from other departments. For example, you can organize your regional sales departments for North America by states.
Type: The categorization of the department to distinguish it from the other departments that you create. For example, you can organize your departments by region such as North America.