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• Replication schedules, replication (including inbound and outbound replication), and replication partners
• Alarms and operations (including critical and warning alarms, actions, group operations, and failback operations), and storage pool
free space
• Group members (including a specic member), the member health status, and member space
• Member enclosures, including power supplies and other hardware
• Control modules
• Disk drives
• Network hardware
• Volumes, collections, and snapshots, including current and requested status
About Displaying Performance Statistics with the Performance Monitor
The Group Manager Performance Monitor shows performance statistics for the drives or control modules in a member. The
Performance Monitor GUI, accessible from the Group Manager GUI, shows statistical data at regular time intervals. You use icons to
start or stop polling the data, and to navigate through the captured data. You can display up to four sets of statistics.
The Performance Monitor provides some exibility, allowing you to change how data is displayed. You can view data as a chart, a
histogram (bar chart), or a data table. For example, in chart view, you can click at any place along the graph and show details for a
given time slice. You can also change the Performance Monitor display colors used in graphs, change the length of time between
which data points are collected, and change the number of data points to save.
To more eectively monitor multiple PS Series groups from a single GUI, Dell recommends that you use the SAN Headquarters
monitoring tool.
Start Performance Monitor from the Tools Menu
1. Open the Tools menu and click Performance monitor. The Group Manager Performance Monitor window opens.
2. Click Add statistics to open the Select Statistics dialog box.
3. Expand Members.
4. Expand a specic member.
5. Expand a component or statistics category.
6. Select a counter set to display.
7. Click OK.
In the Performance Monitor window, use the buttons and icons along the top of the window to control which data is displayed and
how it is displayed.
Start Performance Monitor from the Navigation Pane Tree View
1. Click Group.
2. Expand Members and select a member from the list.
3. Either:
• Click the Disks tab to monitor a drive.
• Click the Network tab to monitor an Ethernet port.
4. Select the component that you want to monitor.
5. In the Activities panel, click the link for the type of statistics that you want to monitor.
In the Performance Monitor window, use the buttons and icons along the top of the window to control which data is displayed and
how it is displayed.
NOTE: While it is possible to have several Performance Monitor windows open at the same time, Dell recommends
running only one instance at a time to avoid possible unexpected results.
Performance Monitor Operation Icons
Table 53. Performance Monitor Operation Iconss shows the operation icons in the Performance Monitor window.
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