View the System Health Dashboard

The System Health dashboard provides a single place from which you can quickly determine the health of the system. You can also access hardware information.

Prerequisites

See Roles and associated permissions to determine the user roles that can perform this task.

About this task

The Overview panel displays values for the following high-level health metrics: Configuration, Capacity, Data Protection, and Performance. The overall system health score is based on the highest health score out of the categories. See Understanding the system health score for details on how these scores are calculated. The health score is calculated every five minutes.

To view the system health dashboard:

Steps

  1. On the overview page, select one of the storage systems from the Health panel.
    The Overview tab is displayed for the selected storage system.
  2. Optional: Hover over Overview to view the summary for the other tabs.
  3. View the following items:
    • Introducing your System Health Score panel—The panel text provides information of the system health score. The system health score can help you spot where your most severe health issues are, based on the following core factors: Configuration, Capacity, Data Protection, and Performance. The area with the highest risk to your system health lowers the score until remedial actions are taken (see Introducing your Health Score for more information).
    • Health Score panel—The health score is displayed for each of the following: Total Issues, Configuration, Capacity, Performance, and Data Protection. Any issues that have a health score impact from CloudIQ include a CloudIQ icon (blue light bulb). Clicking a CloudIQ issue results in the display of the CloudIQ Feed screen (see View CloudIQ feed). The following views are available by clicking the associated panel item:
    • Hardware panel—The storage system hardware is displayed. The Hardware section shows the director count for the directors and the available port count on the system. An alert status is indicated through a colored bell beside the title of the highest level alert in that category. If no alerts are present, a green tick is displayed. The following views are available by clicking the panel:
    • CloudIQ Optimizations panel—Unisphere can send data to CloudIQ that is related to configuration, performance, health scores, alerts, and security settings. CloudIQ can analyze this data and where it detects issues, it can generate recommendations for remediation. These recommendations are sent to Unisphere and displayed on the CloudIQ Optimizations panel.
    • The following controls are available: