Stopping and restarting the collection of metadata for devices
Stop and restart the collection of metadata for your devices. Metadata includes performance metadata and the configuration, capacity, and status metadata that is collected by probes.
About this task
You might want to stop and restart data collection for a number of reasons. For example, stop data collection during maintenance work on devices to reduce the warnings and alerts that are triggered. You can then restart data collection when the maintenance work is complete. Restarting the data collection might also help if data is not being collected for a device. When you stop the collection of metadata, the data collections that are currently running complete, and all subsequent collections of metadata are stopped.
If you do not stop data collection during maintenance work, the data collection fails. When the data collection fails, IBM® Support troubleshoots the issue and might contact your organization unnecessarily. IBM Storage Insights attempts to restart data collection automatically, but you can also restart the data collection manually. To restart the data collection successfully, the device and the data collector must both be available.
You might want to restart data collection to resolve performance monitoring problems.
Procedure
To restart the collection of performance and probe metadata, complete the following steps:
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Choose one of the following options:
Offering Actions IBM Storage Insights Pro From the Resources menu, select the type of device. - To restart data collection for a storage system, select Block Storage Systems, File Storage Systems, or Object Storage Systems.
- To restart data collection for a chassis, select .
- To restart data collection for a monitored host,
select Hosts.Note: For not monitored hosts, restart data collection is not available.
IBM Storage Insights On the dashboard, click the view table icon 
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