9.5.01 HP P4000 SAN Solution User Guide (AX696-96168, February 2012)

7 Monitoring the SAN
Monitor the SAN for usage; to ensure that best practices are followed when changes are made,
such as adding additional storage systems to clusters; and maintain the overall health of the SAN.
Tools for monitoring the SAN include the SAN Status Page, the Configuration Summary and the
Best Practice table, the Alarms and Events features, including customized notification methods, and
diagnostic tests and log files available for the storage systems.
Monitoring SAN status
After you have created at least one management group in the CMC, the CMC searches for storage
systems, and then opens to the SAN Status Page, shown in Figure 39 (page 85). The SAN Status
Page brings together multiple categories of information to provide one location from which to
monitor multiple features of the SAN at one time. Use the SAN Status Page to monitor the following
items:
• Best Practices—Ensure that the SAN configurations meet best practice recommendations for
data protection, SAN and data availability, and network connectivity, failover, and
performance.
• Configurations—Monitor SAN configurations to ensure optimum capacity management,
performance, availability, and ease of management.
• Utilization—Track cluster use, space on the SAN, and summary information about configurations
that affect performance and scalability.
• Data protection—Ensure that the SAN is configured for ongoing maximum data protection
while scaling capacity and performing system maintenance.
• Alarms—Manage the SAN health by easily tracking issues that may arise.
Configuring the SAN Status Page
Customize the information displayed on the Status Page.
84 Monitoring the SAN