SEN_EMC_CONTROLLER_CLAR

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Parameters

Name

Description

Units

Default Alert Conditions

Attribute Type

CacheDirtyPagesPercentage

Percentage of dirty pages currently in cache, that is, pages that have been modified in the SP’s write cache, but that have not yet been written to disk. A high percentage of dirty pages means the cache is handling many write requests.

Percentage (%)

None

Statistics

OperationRate*

Total number of operations per second.

Operations/s

None

Statistics

Present

Indicates whether the device is present or not since the last collect.

{0 = No; 1 = Yes}

Warning = 0

Availability

ProcessorUtilization*

Utilization of the processor.

Percentage (%)

Warning = 80 % (for two consecutive collects)
Alarm = 90 %

Statistics

ReadOperationRate

Number of read operations per second.

Operations/s

None

Statistics

ReadOperationsPercentage

Percentage of read operations.

Percentage (%)

None

Statistics

ResponseTime Baselining KPI_10.5

Average response time for all operations.

Note: A number of 10 (or less) collected I/Os between two data collects being insufficient to accurately report on response time, EMC Disk Arrays KM may automatically sets this parameter to 0 to avoid triggering irrelevant alarms.

Milliseconds (ms)

Warning = 10 ms (two consecutive times)
Alarm = 100 ms

Response Time

Status

Status of the controller.

{0=OK; 1 = Degraded; 2 = Failed}

Warning = 1
Alarm = 2

Availability

StatusInformation

Detailed information about the EMC controller status.

n/a

None

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TransferByteRate Baselining KPI_10.5

Count of data transferred per second.

Megabytes per second (MB/s)

None

Statistics

WriteFlushByteRate

Cumulative count of write cache flushed per second.

Megabytes per second (MB/s)

None

Statistics

WriteOperationRate

Number of write operations per second.

Operations/s

None

Statistics

WriteOperationsPercentage

Percentage of written operations.

Percentage (%)

None

Statistics

*Parameters marked with an asterisk are used by default when visualizing the corresponding monitor instance in TrueSight Operations Management.

InfoBox

Name

Description

PATROL ID

The device's PATROL internal identifier.

IP

Controller's IP Address.

Memory Size

Memory size of the adapter in Megabytes (MB).

PROM Revision

Adapter Card PROM Revision.

Protocol

Protocol supported by the Adapter (Mixed; iSCSI; iSCSI; ESCON; FICON; Other; Unknow; n/a).

Read Cache Size

Size of the cache containing read data.

Role

Describes the role of the controller (Front-end; Back-end; Remote; n/a).

Serial Number

Controller's serial number.

Write Cache Size

Size of the cache containing written data.

MetaTokenID

Identifier of the instance. This identifier is required to ensure the instance is properly interpreted by BMC TrueSight Operations Management.

CI_ID

Identifier of the configuration item.

Menu Commands

Function

Description

Reporting

Reporting > Fiber Ports Activity

Generates a report on Fiber ports activity.

Reporting > Controller Activity

Generates a report on the controller activity.

Pause Monitoring

Pauses the monitoring of the controller.

Resume Monitoring

Resumes the monitoring of the controller after it has been paused.

Remove

Removes the controller from the monitoring environment.