Monitoring your Storage Environment

The BMC TrueSight Operations Management platform, combined with the powerful monitoring features of TrueSight IBM DS6000, DS8000 Storage Monitoring, provides you with a visual representation of the monitored resources in your environment to give you a full picture of your SAN; The solution proactively detects, automatically predicts, and resolves IT performance issues and sub-optimal configurations before users and services are negatively impacted. Integrated as a native module for BMC TrueSight Operations Management, TrueSight IBM DS6000, DS8000 Storage Monitoring monitors the physical aspects your entire IBM environment. It reports hardware failures and monitors key performance metrics. It helps you diagnose any availability issue in the SAN, and ensures maximum data protection by monitoring a wide range of critical components.

Viewing the Overall Activity of a Device

The BMC TrueSight Operations Management Monitoring menu gives you access to various options for viewing your monitored environment: Applications, Devices, Events, Groups. This chapter focuses on the Devices page that displays information about the IBM devices that BMC TrueSight Operations Managerment - IBM DS6000, DS8000 Series Storage monitors.

Log on to the BMC TrueSight Operations Management console and select Monitoring > Devices to access basic information for each monitors associated with a monitored device

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Devices Page

The Devices page displays information about the devices that TrueSight IBM DS6000, DS8000 Storage Monitoring monitors and a view at the overall health of the system.

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To drill down and view a specific device details, click the device name or the events count.

•Device name: Displays the Monitors tab in the Device Details page.

•Events count: Displays the Events tab in the Device Details page.

Device Details

The Device Details page displays the device name, type, DNS name, IP address, and source name. The event status and severity matrix displays the number of events in each status and severity.

Device Monitors

This page displays all the monitors that are associated with the device.The action menu allows you to change and sort the view. In the tile view, you can show or hide the monitor type and source name. In the Table View, you can expand the monitor rows to drill down into the device components.

Device Events

This page displays all the events that are associated with the device. By default, events of Critical, Major, Minor, Warning, and Information severity and Open, Acknowledged, and Assigned status are displayed. To view events of a specific status and severity, click the appropriate event count in the events matrix.

Refer to the BMC documentation for detailed information about the BMC TrueSight Operations Management features and options.