Overview dashboard (Carbon)

• Email notifications: Allows users to configure update, outage and alert notifications. The option is only available for the IBM Storage Insights Pro users.

  Users can perform the following configurations on the Email notifications page:

  • Manage updates and outage notifications: Specify emails to notify users about the updates and outages notifications. Complete the following steps to add or delete email addresses for notifications:
    1. Expand the View recipients drop-down.
    2. To add recipients, click Add. The Add recipients dialog box appears.
    3. Type email addresses in the Email addresses field. You can specify multiple emails addresses, the height of the input field increases to accommodate the emails, after that the input field provides the scrolling feature.
    4. Click Add to add email addresses.
    5. To delete a recipient, click the delete (x) icon for the respective email. To delete multiple emails, select emails by selecting the check boxes in the list and click Delete. To discard the changes, click Cancel.
  • Manage alert notifications: Specify email addresses to notify recipients about alerts. To add or delete email addresses, follow the same steps as mentioned for Manage updates and outage notification.
    Note: You can override email addresses by specifying other email addresses in the alert definitions for policies, resources, and groups. For more information, see Viewing and administering alert definitions.
  • Remove alert overridden emails: Removes all the emails that are specified for overriding the alerts recipients from alert definitions for policies, resources, or groups. When you remove alert overridden emails, all email notifications are sent to the global email addresses. To remove all overriding emails, complete the following steps:
    1. Click Remove all The Removing all overriding emails? dialog box appears.
    2. Click Remove all to remove all the emails that are specified for overriding the alerts recipients. Click Cancel to cancel the operation.
• Integrations: Opens the existing Integrations page. The option is only available for the IBM Storage Insights Pro users.
• Log access: Allows users to edit the access for IBM Support to collect and upload logs for the selected storage systems. The Log access page displays the Access status count for all the storage systems as Allowed, Not allowed, and Ask for access.

  You can allow IBM Support to collect and upload packages from your storage systems without requiring permission. If you grant access to IBM Support to collect and upload log packages without any permission, IBM Support can resolve your tickets faster.

  To edit the access for IBM Support to collect and upload log packages, complete the following steps:

  1. Click Edit log access. The Edit log access window appears with the list of storage systems and access status in a tabular format.
  2. To edit the access status, select the appropriate status under the Ask for access, Allowed, or Not allowed column for a storage system. You can select storage systems from the list by selecting check boxes, and click the appropriate option from the Ask for access, Allowed, or Not allowed. These options are visible only when a user selects a single or multiple storage systems from the list of the available storage systems.
  3. Click Save to save the changes. To discard changes, click Cancel.
• Managed capacity: Opens the Managed capacity classic UI page in the same window.
• User access management: Opens the existing User access management page.

• Default to new experience: Allows to switch the IBM Storage Insights view between classic and new experience. By default, the toggle is switched on. The feedback form is displayed if you switch off the toggle to set the IBM Storage Insights classic view as default. The feedback form is displayed only once per user on any particular tenant.
• User role: Allows you to switch the user role if the user has more than one role available.
• Get support: Allows you to open the support tickets.
• Manage users: Provides a link to the user to navigate to the products services page. The option is available only to administrator role users.
• Log out: Logs out from IBM Storage Insights.

• Buckets are sorted from left to right in descending order of the total number of devices in each bucket.
• The ordering is applied to FlashSystem, SAN Volume Controller, DS8000.
• The Other storage bucket is always displayed at the rightmost position.

If a particular system type is not monitored in IBM Storage Insights, its bucket is not displayed in the UI. For example, if no DS8000 systems are monitored, the DS8000 bucket is not shown.

If only one device type is monitored, bucket categorization is not applied.

• Replication: Total capacity of all unique volumes that serve as source for replication operations.
• Snapshots: Total capacity of all unique volumes with snapshots or safeguarded copies.
• Safeguarded copies: Total capacity of all unique volumes with safeguarded copies.

• In expanded view of the carbon emission (CO₂e) metric, you can view the details in table format, export the data to CSV, JPG, or PNG formats, and customize the duration for viewing carbon emission (kgCO₂e) trend.

• Analyze Metrics: Click to open the performance chart for the selected environment metric.
• Settings: Click to open the Environment page, where you can configure environment metric settings.

You can click on a rectangular box to view the deviation data of a specific day for a specific metric. The color of the box indicates the number of deviations for that particular day. When you click a rectangular box, the widget displays a detailed view of the deviations for that particular day. When you hover the mouse on any rectangular box, a tooltip displays further details, such as the number of deviations that occurred for the respective metric on a particular day.

It takes 14 days for a new device to be added and for an excluded or removed system to be completely removed from the exempted systems list.

The window provides a detailed breakdown in a tabular format with the following parameters:

• Observation: Displays the count of deviations with the storage system name. To view the details of all deviations along with the metrics value, click the expand (>) icon available at the start of the row. In the expanded mode, the column reads the increased or decreased observed deviation, such as Increased I/O rate or Decreased transfer rate.
• Deviation Value: Displays the observed deviated value of the metric.
• Deviation %: Displays the amount of deviation by comparing to the normal range value expressed as a percentage.
• Time: Displays the time at which the deviation occurred in the in browser's timezone. On hovering a time value, the column shows the browser timezone based date of the deviation.
• Preview: Displays the graphical view of the deviation. When you click a graph, a window appears with a graphical view of the performance deviation of the metric value for that day.
• Config changes: Provides insights by comparing the snapshots. If a storage system has multiple snapshots on the same day, the latest snapshot is used for comparison. The common configuration changes include firmware updates and component additions or deletions.

When a user expands a deviation entry for a specific storage system, a detailed view of performance deviations appears. The detailed view displays performance deviation metrics for that particular storage system along with the metrics, metrics value, deviation, the time of deviation, and the deviation view in the graphical format. The detailed view is only available to the IBM Storage Insights Pro users.

• Sensitivity: The slider allows users to control the sensitivity value, where a higher sensitivity results in higher number of detected deviations. The slider provides the Low, Medium, and High options to the users to configure threshold. The default value is Medium.
• Exempted systems: Users can manually add storage systems to the exception list to prevent them from the monitoring process. To prevent storage systems from the performance deviation monitoring, select the storage systems from the Select storage system drop-down. The drop-down display all the available storage systems with a check-box, users can select any number of the storage systems by checking the check boxes. The selected storage systems appear under Exempted systems in the form of a list when the user saves the changes. To remove the storage system from the exempted systems list, click the delete (x) icon available for the respective storage system in the Exempted systems list.