Monitoring system health using ESS GUI

The following table lists the system health monitoring options that are available in the ESS GUI.
Table 1. System health monitoring options available in ESS GUI
Option Function
Monitoring > Hardware Displays the status of all servers, enclosures, and drives in an enclosure. Click a server or enclosure to view the details of that particular hardware component.
Monitoring > Hardware Details Displays status and details of the servers and enclosures that are a part of the system. Click any of the system components to view its details. This view also provides a text search and filtering for unhealthy hardware.
Monitoring > Events Lists the events that are reported in the system. You can monitor and troubleshoot errors on your system from the Events page.
Monitoring > Tips Lists the tips reported in the system and allows to hide or show tips. The tip events give recommendations to the user to avoid certain issues that might occur in the future.
Home Provides overall system health of the ESS system. This page is displayed in the GUI only if the minimum release level of ESS is 4.2.2 or later.
Monitoring > Nodes Lists the events reported at the node level.
Files > File Systems Lists the events reported at the file system level.
Files > Transparent Cloud Tiering Lists the events reported for the Transparent Cloud Tiering service. The GUI displays this page only if the transparent cloud tiering feature is enabled in the system.
Files > Filesets Lists events reported for filesets.
Files > Active File Management Displays health status and lists events reported for AFM cache relationship, AFM disaster recovery (AFMDR) relationship, and gateway nodes.
Storage > Pools Displays health status and lists events reported for storage pools.
Storage > NSDs Lists the events reported at the NSD level.
Storage > Physical Displays health information and properties of physical disks and the corresponding declustered arrays.
Storage > Volumes Displays health information and properties of logical volumes and the corresponding declustered arrays.
Health indicator that is available in the upper right corner of the GUI. Displays the number of events with warning and error status.
System overview widget in the Monitoring > Dashboard page. Displays the number of events reported against each component.
System health events widget in the Monitoring > Dashboard page. Provides an overview of the events reported in the system.
Timeline widget in the Monitoring > Dashboard page. Displays the events that are reported in a particular time frame on the selected performance chart.