Viewing the status of resources

Use detail pages to view the status of storage systems, servers, hypervisors, switches, and fabrics and the status of their internal resources. The status of a resource is reported to IBM Spectrum® Control by its hardware.

The status of a resource is different from the operational condition that is calculated by IBM Spectrum Control for top-level resources:
  • Condition is determined by propagating the statuses of resources and is only shown for top-level resources.
  • Status represents the status of a resource as reported by its hardware and is shown for top-level resources and internal resources. The following examples illustrate statuses that might be reported by a resource:
    • If the cooling fans in a storage system are stopped and the internal temperature is too high, an error status Error status icon is reported by that storage system.
    • If a disk on a storage system is starting, a warning status Warning condition icon is reported for that disk by the storage system.
Tip: View condition to identify which top-level resources might be encountering problems. View status to identify the specific resources that are causing the problems in a top-level resource.
  1. In the menu bar, go to the resource type that you want to view.
    For example, if you want to view the status of block storage systems and their internal resources, go to Storage > Block Storage Systems.
  2. Right-click a resource and select View Details.
  3. To view the status of the top-level resource, view the status icon that is displayed next to its image on the page.
  4. To view the aggregated status of an internal resource, view the status icon that is displayed next to its image in the Internal Resources section.
    If a resource has a status other than normal, an icon is displayed for the most critical status.

    For example, if a server has three controllers with an error status and two controllers with a warning status, the error status icon is shown for controllers in the Internal Resources section:

    Controllers icon Controllers (5) Error status icon

  5. To view the status of a specific internal resource, click the name of that internal resource in the Internal Resources section.
    A list of the monitored internal resources is displayed. For example, on the details page for a server, click Controllers (5) to view a list of the five controllers that are associated with the server.
  6. Check the Status column to view the status for each internal resource.
    Tip: When you view information about some internal resources, the Status column might show values that are more specific than Error, Unreachable, Warning, Unreachable, Unknown, and Normal. Use this additional status to determine the cause of the problem for an internal resource.

    For example, in the Internal Resources section on the details page for a storage system, an error status might be shown for managed disks:

    Storage system-managed disk icon Managed Disks (5) Error status icon

    When you view the list of managed disks, the Status column might show an Offline status for a specific managed disk. When a managed disk is reported as offline, an error status icon Error status icon indicates that status.