Starting monitoring

After you have set the storing period for the monitoring data, you can start the monitoring function.

CautionWhen you start monitoring a storage system, all of its previous monitoring statistics are deleted. If you want to keep the previous monitoring statistics, first export the desired data using Export Tool and then restart monitoring.
NoteMonitoring data cannot be displayed within the first two sampling intervals after the monitoring starts or the sampling interval is changed because no monitoring data has accumulated. For instance, if the sampling interval is set to 15 minutes, monitoring data is not accumulated for up to 29 minutes after the start of monitoring.

While the statistics information is being collected, the server workload increases and the client process might slow down.

Before you begin

  • Required role: Storage Administrator (Performance Management)

Procedure

  1. Select Analytics in Explorer, and select Performance Monitor in the tree to open the Performance Monitor window.

  2. In the Performance Monitor window, click Edit Monitoring Switch to open the Edit Monitoring Switch window.

  3. Click Enable in the Monitoring Switch field.

  4. Select the sampling interval in the Sample Interval. This option is activated when you specify Enable for Current Status.

  5. Click Finish.

  6. In the Confirm window enter your task name in Task Name, and click Apply to start monitoring.

    The Tasks window opens if Go to tasks window for status is checked.
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