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Monitoring san status, Chapter 6 – Apple Xsan 1.1 User Manual

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Monitoring SAN Status

This chapter shows how to check the condition of a SAN
and its components.

This chapter shows how you can check on or automatically report the condition of a
SAN and its components. It includes instructions that show you how to:

 Monitor a SAN securely by locking Xsan Admin views (page 90)
 Check overall status

 Of the SAN (page 90)
 Of a volume (page 91)

 Check free space

 On a volume (page 92)
 On a storage pool (page 92)

 View overall controller CPU and network utilization graphs (page 93)
 View file system process CPU and memory utilization graphs (page 93)
 Set up status notifications (page 94)
 Check status of file system processes (page 94)
 View logs (page 95)
 Check volume clients (page 95)
 Check for Fibre Channel failures (page 96)
 Check the state of Xserve RAID systems (page 96)