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# 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 lowest 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:
   - Total Issues panel—Displays a summary of any health issues and their impact on the health score (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:
     - VIEW ALERTS— View alerts
     - VIEW PERFORMANCE— Use Default dashboards
     - VIEW DATA PROTECTION— View SRDF groups
   - 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:

     - Front End— View system front-end directors (for storage systems running HYPERMAX OS 5977 or PowerMaxOS 5978)
     - RDF— View SRDF directors (for storage systems running HYPERMAX OS 5977 or PowerMaxOS 5978)
     - Back End— View back-end directors
     - Available Port — View available ports (for storage systems running HYPERMAX OS 5977 or PowerMaxOS 5978)
     - OR Directors— View OR directors (for storage systems running PowerMaxOS 10 (6079))
     - EF Directors— View EF directors (for storage systems running PowerMaxOS 10 (6079))
     - EM Directors— View EM directors (for storage systems running PowerMaxOS 10 (6079))
   - 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:
     - View System Properties— View Storage System details
     - Manage Emulation— The Emulation Management wizard (for storage systems running HYPERMAX OS 5977 or PowerMaxOS 5978)
     - View Other Hardware— View cache partitions
     - Run Health Check— Perform system health checks
     - View SAN Health— View SAN health information (for storage systems running PowerMaxOS 6079)