Reporting the Total Traffic on an Hourly or Daily Basis

IBM DS6000, DS8000 Series KM for PATROL not only monitors the traffic and activity of the storage units, extent pools, and volumes in MB/sec, but also in GB per hour or per day. The exact amount of data that was transferred to the storage units, extent pools and volumes is calculated for each hour of the day and each day of the week.

The hourly report graph will represent the amount of data in GB from 12:00am to 12:59am, from 1:00am to 1:59am, from 2:00am to 2:59am, etc, while the daily report graph will represent the amount of data in GB for Monday, for Tuesday, for Wednesday, etc.

This report is notably helpful to SAN administrators to understand the impact of the nightly backups, of the amount of data a specific application writes to a drive and how this evolves (with upgrades for example). In general, this will help administrators analyze the impact on various features of the storage unit on the long term.

Generating a storage unit activity report

1.In the console, right-click the Storage Unit icon> KM Commands > Reporting > Storage Unit Activity...

2.Select the parameter for which you wish to generate a report:

▪read bytes,

▪write bytes, or

▪read/write bytes.

KMCmd_Report_StorageUnit

Configuring the Report Settings

3.Select the report range and interval

4.Select the specific storage unit(s) you wish to include in the report. By default all the monitored storage units are included in the report.

The Storage Unit selection option is only available when at least two storage units are monitored.

5.Click Show Report

The ability of the product to report on a given period of time depends on the history retention period of the PATROL Agent.