eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by NimPSupplyTrapTest

Abnormal power fluctuation to the hardware components often lead to the malfunctioning of the Nimble Storage which when left unnoticed can prove to be fatal to the availability and overall health. This test intercepts the traps sent by the storage, extracts information related to power supply failures from the traps, and reports the count of these trap messages to the eG manager. This information enables administrators to detect the abnormalities in the power supply if any, understand the nature of these failures, and accordingly decide on the remedial measures.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Num_messages Indicates the number of times this event was triggered during the last measurement period. Number The failure events may be generated due to the failure of the power supply units of the Nimble Storage. If the failure events are not rectified within a certain pre-defined timeperiod, the storage will be shutdown automatically.

Ideally, the value of this measure should be zero. A high value is an indication of performance degradation of the Nimble storage.