Determining the data that you want to gather about storage resources is critical to
helping you implement a storage management strategy. IBM Spectrum
Control provides two different jobs for collecting
data about resources.
Table 1. Data collection jobs,
resources, and related tasks
| Data collection job |
Resources |
Related tasks |
- Probe
- Use probes to collect status, asset, configuration, and capacity
information about resources.
|
Storage systems
Servers
Hypervisors
Fabrics
Switches
Rollup servers (capacity and
status information only)
|
- Schedule a probe when you add a resource for monitoring.
- Modify the schedule for a probe at any time on the list and details
pages for a resource. For example, to modify the schedule for a block
storage system, go to the Block Storage Systems page
or the details page for the block storage system.
- Use the Rollup server connections page to manage probes for rollup
servers.
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- Performance monitor
- Use performance monitors to collect metrics that measure the performance
of resources.
|
Block storage systems
File storage systems
Object storage systems
Switches
|
- Schedule a performance monitor when you add a resource for monitoring.
- Modify the schedule for a performance monitor at any time on the Performance page,
and on the list and details pages for the resource.
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