Initiator metrics

Unisphere collects and displays metrics for initiators.

The following table lists all metrics that are available for initiators.

Within the PM metrics section, V4 is used to denote that the metric is supported only by a storage system (array) running PowerMaxOS 10 (6079). V3 is used to denote that the metric is supported only by a storage system (array) running HYPERMAX OS 5977 or PowerMaxOS 5978. Metrics without the denotation are supported by all storage systems (arrays).

Table 1. Initiator metrics
Metrics Description
Bandwidth Limit Exceeded Secs Sum of the number of seconds that the dir:port:initiator combination was running with maximum quotas
External Read RT The time it takes to process a read outside of the system (V4)
External Response Time The time it takes to process an IO request outside of the system (V4)
External Write RT The time it takes to process a write outside of the system (V4)
Host IOs/sec A host command for data transfer
Host Reads/sec The number of host read operations performed each second by the initiator 
Host Throughput A cumulative number of host MBs read/writes per second
Host Throughput Read A cumulative number of host MBs read per second
Host Throughput Written A cumulative number of host MBs written per second
Host Writes/sec The number of host write operations performed each second by the initiator
Internal Read RT The time it takes to process a read inside of the system (V4)
Internal Response Time The time it takes to process an IO request inside of the system (V4)
Internal Write RT The time it takes to process a write inside of the system (V4)
Read RT The average time that it took the system to serve one read I/O for this  initiator.
Response Time The average response time for the reads and writes
Syscall Count/sec The total number of calls seen by this initiator
Write RT The average time that it took the system to serve one write I/O for this  initiator