eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by VrtxEnclosureTest

The VRTX storage enclosure includes shared storage slots that connect to a single or dual PERC 8 controller(s). This enclosure can include 12 x 3,5" HDD slots or 25 x 2,5" HDD slots depending on the VRTX chassis purchased. Critical problems in this storage enclosure can render the storage infrastructure of VRTX unavailable for the use of your mission-critical applications. To avoid this, an administrator should be able to detect problems with the enclosure well before they affect storage availability and performance. This is where the VrtxEnclosureTest test helps.

This test periodically scans the storage enclosure for holes and proactively alerts administrators to potential abnormalities with the enclosure. In addition, the test also monitors the hardware supporting the HDD slots within the enclosure – i.e., the fans, PSUs, temperature and voltage probes, etc. – and reports their collective state from time to time, so that hardware failures inside the enclosure are promptly brought to the attention of the administrators.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Health_status Indicates how healthy this enclosure currently is.   The values that this measure can report and their corresponding numeric values are discussed below:

Measure Value Numeric Value
Other 1
Unknown 2
Normal 3
NonCritical 4
Critical 5
NonRecoverable 6

Note:

By default, this measure reports one of the Measure Values listed above to indicate the current health of an enclosure. In the graph of this measure however, the same is represented using the numeric equivalents only.

RollUp_status Indicates the current status of the enclosure hardware.   The values that this measure can report and their corresponding numeric values are discussed below:

Measure Value Numeric Value
Other 1
Unknown 2
Normal 3
NonCritical 4
Critical 5
NonRecoverable 6

Note:

By default, this measure reports one of the Measure Values listed above to indicate the current health of an enclosure. In the graph of this measure however, the same is represented using the numeric equivalents only.