Views and Monitoring

Summary:

This topic will focus on the Monitoring and Viewing Capabilities of EMC ControlCenter

 

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      1.            Launching the EMC ControlCenter Console.

Double Click on the “Start ControlCenter Console” Icon and wait for the  “ControlCenter Launch Utility” to appear.

Enter the Server Host Name or IP address leave the Server Port Number at the default value of 5799 and Click on the Submit button, the EMC ControlCenter Login Screen will be launched. 

Enter the assigned User name and Password and click OK.

The Console has two main Panels the one on the left shows the “Object Tree” as Folders. Some of the folders are “Storage”, “Hosts”, “Connectivity” and “Administration”. The Storage, Hosts and Connectivity folders contain the managed objects. The right hand side Panel is the “Target Panel” where different Views of the Managed Objects can be seen. Properties, Relationship, Topology, At a Glance, Performance and Alerts are some of the common views.

In this Lab we will be focusing on the Views and Monitoring capabilities EMC ControlCenter

      2.            Configuration information on a Storage Array.

a)     How many storage arrays is this Console managing: ___________ (Drill Down into the Storage Folder in the tree)

b)     Determine the Properties of the Storage Arrays:

(1)  Click on the Properties Button from the Short Cut bar to make the Target Panel heading “Properties”

(2)  Click on one of the Symmetrix in the tree and drag it into the target panel and record the following information:

Serial Number of Symmetrix:__________

Model Number of Symmetrix:__________

Configured Capacity:________

Un-configured Capacity:_________

What is Un-configured capacity as opposed to Configured capacity?

Cache Size:________

(3)  What is the Status of the Symmetrix that you are looking at: (The Symmetrix may show a Status icon if there are any problems.  Mouse over the Status icon to see what the problem is):____________________

c)      Determine the Configuration of the Symmetrix: (Drill Down into the Symmetrix you have selected in the Tree)

(1)  Determine the number and type of Host (Front End) Directors on this Symmetrix: (Drill down into the Host Directors – Click and Drag Directors to the Properties Target Panel):

(2)  List the Types (R1/R2/BCV/Standard etc) of Mapped Devices on this Symmetrix; (Drill Down into the Mapped Devices Folder):

(3)  What is the difference between a Mapped and an Un-mapped device? 

(4)  Is this Symmetrix an SRDF connected Symmetrix? If so List the SRDF Directors and RA Groups: How would you determine this information? 

d)     Determine which Hosts a Symmetrix is Attached to:

(1)   Clear all objects from the Target Panel by clicking on the “Eraser Button” in the Objects Tree Pane. Then click on the “Relationship” button from the Short Cut bar then Click and Drag one of the Symmetrix from the tree to the Target Panel. The Target Panel should show you a relationship view of the Symmetrix you have chosen.

(2)  The hosts are listed to the left with the Symmetrix on the right. Folders with the devices are available both under the hosts and the Symmetrix.

(3)  List the Hosts to which the Symmetrix you have chosen in Connected:  

e)     Visual Storage: Visually displays Front End Directors and Disk Directors along with all the devices in one View:

(1)  You saw the “Relationship” view in the previous Step. We will switch this view to the Visual Storage View.

(2)  From the “Storage Allocation” Pull down menu choose “Visual Storage”. The Relationship View will change to the Visual Storage View. This View has three regions. The top shows the Front End directors and the Mapped devices. The middle shows the Disk Directors and the location of all the “hypers” or “splits”. The bottom region is an “Information region”. It gives the information on the current object over which the mouse is hovering.

(3)  Clicking on a Device (Blue Highlight) on the Front end will highlight (in gray) its back end locations: Click on the VCM Device (Device 000-000) on any of the Fibre Channel front end ports and record the Back end locations of its hypers: 

(4)  Drill down into the Host Directors folder of the Symmetrix in the Tree and click the check box of one of the Front-End Directors. This will highlight all the Devices presented to this director and also highlight the corresponding locations in the Back-end. Uncheck to box to clear the highlighting

(5)  Drill down into the “Hosts” Folder and click the check boxes on one of the hosts connected to this Symmetrix. The Visual Storage view will highlight the front end and back end location of all the devices presented to this host.

(6)  Extensive On-line help is available and Context Sensitive help can be launched by clicking on the “?” icon on any panel

      3.            Host Information.

a)     Clear all entities from the Target Panel by clicking on the “Eraser” button on the Tree Panel. Switch the Target Panel view to “Properties” (Click on Properties button on the Short cut bar)

b)     Drill down into the Hosts folder and Click and drag a host into the Target panel. The Properties of the host are shown. Record the following:  

c)      Relationship View of a Host – End-to-end Mapping information.

(1)  Switch the Properties View to Relationship View by clicking on the “Relationship” button on the short cut bar.  The relationship view is in a “Map” format. Drill down into the Device Folders under the host and the Symmetrix.

(2)   You can switch the Display format from a “Map” format to a “Table” format. Click on the “Table” button in the top bar of the Target panel. The Display switches to a Table format and the end-to-end relationship is seen. Pick a file system or a Physical device on the Host and record the end-to-end Mapping information for the device or File-System.

d)     Determine which EMC ControlCenter Agents are running on a given host: 

(1)  Switch the relationship view to the “Agents” view by picking “Agents” from the Administration Pull down menu. Record the Agents running on the Host you chose and explain the purpose of each agent (Hint: Use the Context Sensitive Online Help to determine the purpose of each of the Agents).

(2)  Click on the Check box for the “Hosts” folder. This will show you all the Hosts and all the agents in the Configuration.  From the Action Pull Down menu in the top bar of the Target Pane choose “Legend Palette”. This open up the “View Legend” window.  Primary agents are represented with “Blue” lines. Secondary agents are represented with “Gray” lines. List the Hosts for the Primary Symmetrix, Switch and SDM agents.

      4.            Connectivity Information – Switches, Connectivity topology …

a)     Properties of a Switch:

(1)  Clear all entities from the Target Panel. Switch the Target Panel View to Properties by clicking on the Properties button on the Short cut bar.

(2)  Drill down into the Connectivity Folder and then into the Units folder. Click and drag one of the Switches into the Target Panel.

(3)  Record the Properties of the Switch

b)     Connectivity Topology:

(1)  Switch the properties view to the “Topology” view by clicking on the Topology button in the short cut bar.

(2)  Determine which Host is attached to which port of the Switch. Determine which Front end director/port is attached to which port of the switch. Drill down into the Hosts, Fabric and Storage as much as you can and record the information in the following table.

      5.            At a Glance View

a)     Clear the target panel of all entities. Switch the target pane to “At a Glance View” using the short cut button.

b)     Click on the “Show All” button in the top right corner of the target panel (near the eraser button). This will populate the target panel with the At a Glance view for all the objects managed by ControCenter.

c)      Record the following:

(1)  Total number of Alerts from the Alerts graph in the “Health” section: ______

(2)  Agent Status: How many agents are inactive _______

(3)  Agent Status: Total Number of Agents _______

(4)  Are there any ECC Health related alerts? _______

(5)  Have any Capacity or Perfomance related thresholds been exceeded? ___

d)     Explain the purpose of the “Drill Down by” section found at the bottom of the At a Glance view:

END of exercise.

Good Luck!