IBM Storage Scale System fabric hospital

The IBM Storage Scale System fabric hospital monitors hardware problems in a storage fabric. The fabric hospital identifies and isolates problems that impact the I/O availability.

The fabric hospital groups I/O error information based on hardware topology, and allows users to set thresholds when a group of errors exceeds a threshold. For example, all errors under a common SAS HBA port are grouped together and stored. If I/O errors on that system were isolated to the common port, then a corresponding event associated with the specified port is raised.

The IBM Storage Scale System fabric hospital is only supported on the IBM Storage Scale System 3500 and later models, and it supports to the SAS-based error monitoring.