Operations dashboard
Identify which block storage systems or fabrics in your inventory need attention, such as those with error or warning conditions. You can manage your storage and fabrics in the Operations dashboard by using key insights and analysis about health, capacity, and performance.
To view the Operations dashboard, click Dashboards and then click Operations. With IBM® Storage Insights, you get the information that you need to monitor the health of your block storage environment and fabrics on the Operations dashboard:
Block Storage Systems
The block storage systems that are being monitored are displayed in a list on the left of the dashboard. Storage systems with error conditions and warning conditions are at the top of the list. Detailed information about the selected storage system is displayed on the right of the dashboard.
You can create customized dashboards to monitor particular storage systems or to help troubleshoot issues. For example, you might have dashboards to monitor storage by data center location or to monitor storage usage by production platform.
- Overview of the health of the storage system components or resources, key capacity metrics including compression savings, and key performance metrics. You can open the GUI for the storage system from the Component Health overview.
- ( IBM Storage Insights Pro only) You can view more details about the storage system and components from the overview.
- Notifications details and actions you can take to manage events.
- Tickets details and actions you can take to manage tickets.
- Properties details including editable name, location, and custom tag fields, and support information.
- ( IBM Storage Insights Pro only) Inventory of nodes and enclosures for a SAN Volume Controller storage system, including support information.
- Data collection details such as the status of the data collection, when the most recent data collection occurred, and a list of the available data collectors.
- The condition of a storage system determines its position in the list on the left of the dashboard. The condition is derived from the most critical status of the system or its components. The health of the components in the dashboard is derived from the most critical status of the components. Therefore, a storage system that has an Error condition might appear at top of the list, even if its components all have Normal status.
- For a resource inventory of your block storage, use the Resources menu. Then, double-click a storage system in the list to view more detailed information.
Fabrics
When you add switches, key diagnostic information is collected and analyzed about the switches and the fabrics that the switches belong to and presented in IBM Storage Insights.
Based on the analysis of the metadata, health, hardware, and connectivity issues that can affect the performance of the fabric's SAN components are reported. The information is organized so that the fabrics that require the most attention are shown at the top of the dashboard.
- To check which of the fabric's components, such as switches, blades, or switch ports, caused the error or warning conditions, click the down-arrow on each of the component's tiles.
- To identify the switch ports that are congested or saturated, review the charts. Both port congestion and port saturation adversely affect the performance of the fabric and its components. Port congestion and saturation can also adversely affect the performance of the host that initiates the transaction requests, and the storage systems that respond to the transaction requests.
- Review the number of hardware errors that were detected. High numbers of hardware errors might indicate the failure of a hardware component.
- Review the number of logical errors that were detected.
- Domain ID changes.
- Fabric segmentation.
- Percentage of port bandwidth that is being used by outgoing traffic.
- Zone changes.
More actions for IBM Storage Insights Pro
By default, when you add a fabric, it is automatically added to the fabric policy. Notifications are automatically generated when the condition of the fabric changes to error.
You can use the alert policy to create a custom alert policy. You can add more alerts, modify alert thresholds, and specify who is notified when an alert occurs.
