Monitoring daily the performance of volumes

In this scenario, you create a report view from a predefined report to run a daily report about the performance of volumes. You can also use this scenario to monitor any other resources and performance metrics.

You have applications that are critical to your business. The applications access volumes in your storage environment. You want to monitor daily the performance of the volumes to confirm that they are functioning correctly. To monitor the volumes, you must create a report view to run a daily report about the performance of volumes.

  1. Go to the URL for your Cognos® Analytics server. The format of the URL is similar to this URL: http://myhostname:9300/bi
  2. In the Welcome portal, click Team Content.
  3. Click IBM Spectrum Control Predefined Reports.
  4. Click Storage Systems > Volumes.
  5. Right-click the Compare Performance of Multiple Volumes report, then click Create report view.
  6. Type a name for the report view, then click Save.
  7. Right-click the new report view, then click Properties.
  8. Click the Schedule tab.
  9. Click New to create new schedule.
  10. Schedule the report view to run daily.
  11. In the Options area, click Format, then select HTML and PDF formats.
  12. In the Prompts area, click Set values, and then click Set.
  13. Specify the storage systems and the volumes that you want to monitor, and then click Next.
  14. Select the following performance metrics:
    • Total Overall I/O Rate (ops/s)
    • Overall Response Time (ms/op)
    • Total Data Rate (MiB/s)
    • Total Overall Cache Hit Percentage
  15. Specify an interval and a reporting period for the report view, and then click Finish.
  16. Click Create to save the schedule, format, and prompt value settings.
View the output of this report every day to confirm that these volumes are functioning correctly. Click the report view to view the latest output for the report. If the report output is not displayed, make sure that the Default action for report view in the properties of the report view is set to View most recent report.