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Measures reported by HBladeServerStTest

The Hitachi Compute Blade allows accommodating upto eight dual-socket-based blade servers in the chassis. The blade servers are configured in redundant scenario to ensure high-availability and operation continuity and are powered by Intel Xeon processors. With this configuration, the Hitachi Compute Blade meets performance needs of large-scale systems that require extremely high compute power and I/O performance. Each blade server supports upto 30 logical partitions, which in turn simplifies building virtual environment and enables using virtualization to consolidate application and database servers. In addition, the blade servers provide flexible solution for scaling up your infrastructure without any complex requirements. Critical or fatal physical damages, power failures or network connectivity failures can render the blade servers unavailable/inoperable. This in turn degrades performance of the Hitachi Compute Blade. To prevent such eventualities, it is imperative that administrators should closely monitor the blade servers and take immediate measures before the clients complaint. This can be achieved using the HBladeServerStTest test!

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By continuously monitoring each blade server in the chassis, administrators can obtain the overall health, power status and maintenance mode of each blade server. This way, administrators are alerted to abnormalities as soon as they occur and can take necessary corrective actions before mission-critical services begin to suffer. This test also reports the current voltage and power consumption of each blade server.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Health_status Indicates the current health of this blade server.   The values that this measure can report and the numeric values they indicate have been listed in the table below:

Measure Value Numeric Value
Unknown 0.5
No Blade Server is Installed 0
Normal 1
Failed 2

Note:

By default, this measure can report the Measure Values mentioned above while indicating the current health of each blade server. However, the graph of this measure is indicated using the numeric equivalents.
Power_status Indicates the current power supply status of this blade server.   The values that this measure can report and the states they indicate have been listed in the table below:

State Measure Value
PowerOff 1
StandBy 2
PowerOn 3
Unknown 4
PowerOn-Executing 30
PowerOff-Executing 30

Note:

By default, this measure can report the Measure Values mentioned above while indicating the current power supply status of each blade server. However, the graph of this measure is indicated using the numeric equivalents.
Primary_status Indicates whether/not this blade server is primary.   The values that this measure can report and the states they indicate have been listed in the table below:

State Measure Value
Primary 1
Non Primary 2
Unknown 3

Note:

By default, this measure can report the Measure Values mentioned above while indicating the whether/not this blade server is primary. However, the graph of this measure is indicated using the numeric equivalents.
Maintenance_mode Indicates the current maintenance mode of this blade server.   The values that this measure can report and the states they indicate have been listed in the table below:

Mode Measure Value
Normal 1
CE Maintenance Mode 2
User Maintenance Mode 3
Unknown 4

Note:

By default, this measure can report the Measure Values mentioned above while indicating the current maintenance mode of the blade server. However, the graph of this measure is indicated using the numeric equivalents.
Voltage Indicates the current voltage of this blade server. Volts A sudden and significant rise in the value of this measure could be a cause of concern.
Power_consumption Indicates the amount of power consumed by this blade server. Amps Compare the value of this measure across the blade servers to know which blade server is power-intensive.