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Hardware Disk Controller

PATROL Class: MS_HW_DISKCONTROLLER - Monitor Type: MONITOR - Monitor Category: System
No CDM Class defined.

Monitors the disk controller which connects one or more physical disk drives. This instance groups all physical and logical disk drives. If a controller goes missing all its disks will also become missing.

Attributes (Parameters)

Name PATROL Name Units Default Thresholds Description
Battery Status BatteryStatus 0 = OK
1 = Degraded
2 = Failed

 WARN
if = 1 (Degraded)

 ALARM
if = 2 (Failed)

Current status of the disk controller battery. A weak disk controller battery will be unable to support the controller in the event of a power failure.

Value set by diskControllerColl.

Type: Availability - Default graph
Controller Status ControllerStatus 0 = OK
1 = Degraded
2 = Failed

 WARN
if = 1 (Degraded)

 ALARM
if = 2 (Failed)

Current status of the disk controller.

Value set by diskControllerColl.

Type: Availability - Default graph
Present Present 0 = Missing
1 = Present

 ALARM
if = 0 (Missing)

Indicates whether the disk controller is found or not.

Value set by diskControllerColl.

Type: Availability
Status Information StatusInformation None None

Additional (textual) information about the current status of the disk controller.

Value set by diskControllerColl.

Type: Text

Infoboxes (PATROL Console Only)

Name Description
PATROL ID PATROL internal identifier for the disk controller instance.
Disk Controller Information ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Manufacturer Manufacturer of the disk controller.
Model Model of the disk controller.
BIOS Version Information about the BIOS version.
Firmware Version Disk controller’s firmware version.
Driver Version Disk controller’s driver version.
Device ID ID of the monitored disk controller as communicated by the instrumentation layer.
Identifying Information Any additional information available for the disk controller.
Connector Information ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Connector Display Name Display name of the connector currently used to monitor the disk controller.
Connector ID PATROL ID of the connector currently used to monitor the disk controller.
Connector File Name File name of the connector currently used to monitor the disk controller.
Connector Version Version number of the connector.
Connector Date Connector build date.
Menu Command Description
Instant Hardware Health Report Displays a text box recapitulating miscellaneous information regarding the monitored device (properties of the object, its parameters, thresholds, etc.).
Pause Monitoring Pauses the monitoring of the selected disk controller.
Resume Monitoring Resumes the monitoring of the selected disk controller.
Remove Removes the disk controller from the monitoring environment.
Refresh Parameters Refreshes all disk controller parameters.
Keywords:
hardware km patrol