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Storage Essentials 5.1 User Guide 571

Sudden Dips Displayed in Certain Charts

in Performance Manager

In Performance Manager and on the Monitoring tab, charts that display data gathered by certain

volume and drive counters display their charts with the results increasing to the maximum value and

then decreasing rapidly to a very low number that starts rising again.
The sudden dip in the charts occur because the counters holding the values displayed in the charts

can contain at most 231 (2147483648) integers. The counters revert back to zero after reaching

231 (2147483648) integers. Then, they continue to go up again. The counters do not usually

display zero in a chart because they are quickly gathering data again.
The following charts for individual drives are impacted: ReadIOs, WriteIOs, TotalIOs, Bytes

Transferred, Unrecovered Errors, Recovered Errors, Timeouts, Retried Requests
The following charts for individual volumes are impacted: Bytes Read, Bytes Read Large, Bytes

Written, Bytes Written Large, ReadIOs Large, WriteIOs Large, ReadIOs, WriteIOs, TotalIOs, Bytes

Transferred, ReadHitIOs

Values Continue to Increase in Charts

for Aggregated Drives and Aggregate

Volumes

Values in charts for aggregate drives and aggregate volumes continue to rise smoothly in

Performance Manager and on the Monitoring tab. The only time the values in the charts come back

down to the values returned by the array, is when the service for the management server restarts.

Then, the charts display the values returned by the array. The values in the charts continue to rise

until the service for the management server is stopped.
The values in the charts continue to rise because the values do not revert back to zero when an

individual drive or volume counter that makes up the aggregation contain 231 (2147483648)

integers. Instead, the values continue to rise smoothly.
The following charts for aggregate drives are impacted and charts for aggregated drives are also

provided for arrays, controllers, and volume groups: ReadIOs, WriteIOs, TotalIOs, Bytes Transferred,

Unrecovered Errors, Recovered Errors, Timeouts, Retried Requests
The following charts for aggregate volumes are impacted, and charts for aggregated volumes are

also provided for arrays, controllers, and volume groups: Bytes Read, Bytes Read Large, Bytes

Written, Bytes Written Large, ReadIOs Large, WriteIOs Large, ReadIOs, WriteIOs, TotalIOs, Bytes

Transferred, ReadHitIOs

HP-UX 11.0 with HDLM

Y

HP-UX 11.i with HDLM

Y

Table 133

Host Monitoring Support (continued)

Host Configuration

Monitoring Supported?