View external directors

Unisphere supports the display of director information.

Prerequisites

External directors are supported only on storage systems running HYPERMAX OS 5977 or PowerMaxOS 5978.

Steps

  1. Select the storage system.
  2. In the Dashboard, click the System Health tab.
  3. In the Actions panel, click View Other Hardware and then click the External tab to open the External Directors list view.
    NOTE: 

    Some of the following properties and controls are environment-specific and therefore may appear in a different order or not at all.

    The following properties display:

    Director Director name.
    Port Port ID.
    Director Status Director status.
    Cores Number of available director cores.
    Hypers Number of hyper volumes that the director services.
    Alerts Director alert status, as indicated by icon color:
    • Fatal icon One or more fatal alerts
    • Critical icon One or more critical alerts, with none higher
    • Warning icon One or more warning alerts, with none higher
    • Infromation icon One or more informational alerts, with none higher
    • No alerts icon No alerts

    The following controls are available: