Accessing performance manager, Creating performance charts – HP Storage Essentials NAS Manager Software User Manual

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Viewing Performance Data

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If you see “There is not enough data to produce a chart [chart_title] at this time.” message,

lessen the frequency option, so that the amount of time listed in the Frequency drop-down menu

has passed before you view the chart again. For example, if the Frequency menu displays

hourly, you need to wait an hour for data to appear in the chart. If the frequency option is
Default

, the information is displayed according to the interval of the performance collector that

gathers information for the graph. For example, if you set the collector for the graph to every 15

minutes and the period set to Last Hour, the default setting displays four data points in the

graph. See ”

Managing Performance Collection

” on page 227 for more information about

setting the performance collectors.

Verify the performance collector for that element is enabled. See

Managing Performance

Collection

” on page 227 for more information about enabling performance collectors.

If you select the Default option from the Frequency combo box in Performance Manager and

the maximum number of data points is more than 20, the management server displays statistics

averaged over a three-minute interval. All data points collected within the three-minute period

are averaged together to display one data point. For example, assume you are viewing the

performance of the read bandwidth on a storage system and you selected the Default option

from the Frequency combo box in Performance Manager. If there are more than 20 data points

within the selected time period, Performance Manager employs an averaging algorithm to return

an averaged representation of data in a three-minute period.

Direct attached storage ports are not displayed in the storage tree in the bottom left pane.

Performance Manager is not available to file servers.

To learn more about the buttons in the toolbar, see ”

About the Toolbars in Performance

Manager

” on page 551.

The Aggregated volume and aggregated drive filters are no longer shown for Engenio 5884

storage systems or any of its controllers. These filters were available in builds earlier than 4.0 of

the management server.

IMPORTANT:

All collectors are stopped during Discovery Data Collection/Get Details. This means

that during Discovery Data Collection/Get Details data for Performance Manager is not updated.

Historical collectors, such as those available from the Configuration tab, are restarted when they are

stopped during Discovery Data Collection/Get Details. Any charts that were active in Performance

Manager when Discovery Data Collection/Get Details was started are not restarted.

Accessing Performance Manager

To access Performance Manager, click Optimize > Storage Essentials > Performance Manager

or click Tools > Storage Essentials > Home. Then, click Performance Manager in the left pane.

Creating Performance Charts

To create a performance chart for an element:

1.

Access Performance Manager as described in

Accessing Performance Manager

” on

page 550.

2.

Select the element you want to monitor.

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