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Explore the IBM Storage Insights GUI to gain insights into your storage environment. Go to the pages where you add and administer storage resources, modify data collection schedules, and view charts and information about the storage resources. Also, go to the pages where you add and monitor fabrics and switches to view charts and information about them and their internal and related resources.

Did you know?: You must subscribe to IBM Storage Insights Pro to access all menu items. In IBM Storage Insights, only the Dashboards (Operations) and Configuration (Data Collectors) menu items are available. For a list of functions that are available in each version, see IBM Storage Insights free vs IBM Storage Insights Pro.

Menu item	Description
Dashboards	Operations View information about the operation of block storage systems, fabrics, and switches that are being monitored in your data center. For block storage systems, you can open and update hardware and software support tickets, view open tickets, upload logs, and view Call Home events.
Dashboards	Alerts Review the alerts that are generated when performance violations are detected.
Insights	Performance View the chart that shows the changes that occur in the overall I/O rates of storage systems over 12 months. Reclamation View the chart that shows the amount of storage that you can reclaim and a list of the volumes that you can reclaim. You can also view a chart that shows the amount of reclaimable space by storage system.
Resources	Block Storage Systems Add the block storage systems that you want to monitor and view information about the capacity and space usage and performance of the storage systems that are added for monitoring. File Storage Systems Add the file storage systems that you want to monitor and view information about the capacity and space usage of the storage systems that are added for monitoring. Object Storage Systems Add the object storage systems that you want to monitor and view information about the capacity and space usage of the storage systems that are added for monitoring. Unified Storage Systems Add the unified storage systems such as IBM Storage Ceph® that you want to monitor and view information about the IP address, Object Storage Demons(OSDs), monitors, total capacity, and used capacity of the storage systems that are added for monitoring. Pools View information about all of the block storage pools in your data center such as whether the pools are assigned to tiers. Switches Add switches for monitoring and view asset, configuration, status, and performance information about the switches and their internal and related resources. Fabrics Add switches for monitoring and view asset, configuration, status, and performance information about the switches and their internal and related resources. If the switch belongs to a fabric, you can view inventory and configuration information about the fabric. Hosts Add VMware vCenter Server to view information about the capacity and space usage of the hosts that are added for monitoring. IBM Storage Insights Pro automatically generates unmonitored hosts for the physical servers and virtual machines in your SAN environment so that you can easily see the storage consumption by them. You do not need to create unmonitored hosts manually, which saves time and provides more insight into the storage consumption of your resources. You can review your unmonitored hosts to make sure that they accurately represent your storage environment.
Groups	Applications Add the applications and application sub components that you want to monitor and view information about the capacity and space usage and performance of the storage resources that are associated with the applications and the application sub components that are added for monitoring. Departments Add the departments and sub departments that you want to monitor and view information about the capacity and space usage and performance of the storage resources that are associated with the applications that the departments and sub departments use. General Groups Add general groups to view information about storage resources that have common characteristics such as the storage systems with lease agreements that end in the current year or the storage systems that are used by critical business applications.
Configuration	Tiers Define the criteria for allocating tier levels to pools and for analyzing volumes to determine whether the volumes are tiered correctly. Data Collectors Download and run the data collectors to establish a connection with IBM Storage Insights Pro and to gather and analyze the capacity and performance data of your storage systems. User Access Management The IBM Storage Insights REST APIs can be used for various ecosystem integrations. Here are some of the use cases: Integrate storage systems health, capacity, and performance statistics with Integrated Operations dashboards Integrate alerts and notifications that are generated from storage systems with Incident Management systems Integrate security alerts with SOAR tools (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response) for cyber resiliency workflow automations Manage and control user privileges on IBM Storage Insights Provide a secure way to access an API via REST API key
	View a list of tasks that failed, the reason for the failures, and when the tasks failed. You can also complete the following actions: Retry the task. When you retry a task, the task is added to the list of running tasks. Clear the task from the list.
	View a list of tasks that are running by using the running tasks icon. You can see when the tasks started.
	Documentation Access the IBM Storage Insights documentation to read about all the features and functionality of the product. Get Support Helps to raise a request in case of any issues and also allows to check the status of active cases. Download Audit Log You can download the audit logs of the actions that you perform in IBM Storage Insights. The logs for various actions performed in the last 15 days are available to download in CSV format. The Tenant administrators can use this feature to download the audit logs. But, the users with Monitor role cannot use this feature.
user name	Manage Users Add users, assign roles to users, and remove users. To manage users, you must have the Administrator role.