Alarms and events overview, Using the san status page – HP LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance Software User Manual
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Customizing the Status Page layout
Customize the layout of the SAN Status Page to highlight the information most important to you.
All customizations are retained when the CMC is closed and restarted. If the Status Page is undocked
when the CMC is closed, it will be undocked when the CMC is started again.
Drag-and-drop content panes to change their position on the page. The layout is three columns by
default. Drag a content pane and drop it on another content pane. The two panes switch places.
Move all the panes to a two-column layout, or rearrange the three-column layout.
TIP:
If you have changed the layout to fewer than three columns, and you want to re-create an
additional column, drag a content pane to the top right corner of the page.
Minimize and expand panes to control which information is given priority. As priorities change,
change which content panes are minimized and expanded.
Using the SAN Status Page
When you log into a management group, the Status Page shows the current information for that
management group. After the initial log in, the Status Page refreshes frequently, but not immediately.
For example, after creating a new volume in a cluster, it takes several seconds for the new volume
to appear on the Status Page.
When reviewing information in the content panes, many items will display an arrow to the left of
the item. Clicking on that arrow jumps to that item in the CMC, or, in a few cases, to the most
closely related category. For example, clicking the arrow next to any of the Best Practice Summary
items jumps to the management group containing those Best Practice items.
The SAN Status Page contains toolbar buttons to dock and undock the Status Page from the CMC,
and to log into management groups. If the Status Page is undocked, and you close the CMC, when
you open it next time, you must log into the management groups to retrieve the information for the
Status Page. Use the button on the Status Page toolbar to log in to the management groups.
Alarms and events overview
The CMC displays the following types of events, based on their severity:
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Informational—Provides status information about user activities (such as, creating a volume)
and system actions and status (such as, a storage system is up). These types of events do not
require taking action and are available only from the Events node for each management
group.
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Warning—Provides important information about a system component that may require
taking action. These types of events are visible in both the Alarms window (for all management
groups) and the Events node (for the management group where the alarm occurred).
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Critical—Provides vital information about a system component that requires user action.
These types of events are considered to be alarms and are visible in both the Alarms window
(for all management groups) and the Events node (for the management group where the alarm
occurred).
The system monitors over 400 different events and can send notification of events using email or
SNMP or both.
NOTE:
Be sure to set up notification of events for each management group. See
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For more information about working with alarms and events, see
“Working with alarms” (page 88)
and
“Configuring events” (page 89)
shows the Events node and its parts.
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Monitoring the SAN