Checking Available Spare Disks

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To avoid any loss of critical data, it is essential for a disk array to always maintain a pool of spare disks that can replace the faulty disk when a disk failure occurs. A disk array without any spare disk left will not be able to keep the level of data safety and performance in case of a disk failure.

The SpareDiskCount parameter of the SEN_I345_SUBSYSTEM class reports the number of spare disks available for each  subsystem monitored with the solution. By default, a warning is triggered when no spare disk is available (SpareDiskCount is set to zero).

Verifying the number of available spare disks in all your IBM Subsystems

1.Create a PATROL Query in the PATROL Console to show the value of the SpareDiskCount parameter of the SEN_I345_SUBSYSTEM class; In the main menu bar, click Actions > New Query…

QUERY_AvailabeSpareDisk_General

PATROL Query – General Tab

2.Enter the Query name (example: Available Spare Disk)
3.Enter the Query description (optional)
4.In the Query Result Filter section, select Show Selected Objects and check the Parameters box
5.In the Additional Filtering section, select the Application Class level filtering and the Enable Parameter level filtering options
6.Open the Application Class tab
7.In the Pattern Matching section, select Like and type SEN_I345_SUBSYSTEM

QUERY_AvailabeSpareDisk_AppClass

PATROL Query – Application Class Tab

8.Open the Parameter tab
9.In the Pattern Matching section, select Like and type SpareDiskCount

QUERY_AvailabeSpareDisk_Param

PATROL Query – Parameter Tab

10.Click OK to display a table with the number of spare disks available in each monitored subsystems.

 


See also

SEN_I345_SUBSYSTEM