eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by HBladeChassisTest

The Hitachi Compute Blade consists of a robust, fully-redundant 6U chassis i.e. 19-inch rack compatible. The chassis can house up to eight multi-core 2-socket processor half-wide blades or four multi-core 4-socket processor full-wide blades. The chassis is provided with hot-swappable management modules, switch modules, power supply modules and fan modules. These modules provide continuous management, network connectivity, power supply and cooling services to the blades.

Built-in logical partitioning, a key feature of Hitachi Compute Blade 500 complements existing software-based virtualization solutions and can be used in conjunction with VMware, Hyper-V or Red Hat KVM. These multiple virtualization platforms can be combined in a single chassis and can be configured to share the same physical resources. For these virtualization platforms to function without a glitch, it is essential that the chassis on which the physical resources are available should be operational round the clock. Frequent power failures, voltage and temperature fluctuations may damage the chassis resulting in the failure of the virtual platforms. Therefore, it is mandatory for the administrators to keep a constant vigil on the power supply, voltage and temperature of the chassis. This is exactly where the HBladeChassisTest test helps!

Using this test, administrators can determine the current power supply status of the chassis, the current temperature and voltage of the chassis as well as be proactively alerted if the chassis is under maintenance! This way, administrators can be alerted to abnormalities in the temperature and voltage of the chassis and rectify the same before end users utilizing the virtualized solutions provisioned from the Hitachi Compute Blade are not put into terrible hardship!

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Power_Status Indicates the current power status of the chassis.   The values that this measure can report and the numeric values they indicate have been listed in the table below:

Measure Value Numeric Value
PowerOff 1
Standby 2
PowerOn 3
Unknown 4
PowerOn Executing 5
PowerOff Executing 6

Note:

By default, this measure can report the Measure Values mentioned above while indicating the power status of the chassis. However, the graph of this measure is indicated using the numeric equivalents.
Voltage Indicates the current voltage of the chassis. 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 the chassis. Amps  
Temperature Indicates the current temperature status of the chassis.   The values that this measure can report and the numeric values they indicate have been listed in the table below:

Measure Value Numeric Value
Normal 1
Higher Warning 2
Higher Error 3
Lower Warning 4
Lower Unknown 5

Note:

By default, this measure can report the Measure Values mentioned above while indicating the current temperature of the chassis. However, the graph of this measure is indicated using the numeric equivalents.
Maintenance_Mode Indicates the current maintenance mode of the chassis.   The values that this measure can report and the numeric values they indicate have been listed in the table below:

Measure Value Numeric 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 chassis. However, the graph of this measure is indicated using the numeric equivalents.