Monitoring recommended actions in the Advisor
Use the Advisor page to view, evaluate, and manage events that include a recommended action. Review the recommended actions to understand how to address potential problems in your environment.
For each event that includes recommended actions, you can view details such as the severity, the time it occurred, the device, and the internal resource on which it occurred. You can acknowledge recommended actions, and create reports about them. You can approve or decline the request to add the storage device to your environment. You can also use the filter tags on the upper part of the dashboard to quickly filter your recommended actions.
Viewing recommended actions
To view lists of recommended actions, complete the actions in the following table:
View recommended actions for | Steps |
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All monitored devices | Click | .
A specific monitored device |
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Approval requests for IBM Storage Virtualize storage systems | When an IBM Storage Virtualize storage system is integrated with
IBM® Storage Insights by using Call Home with cloud services, a
request to approve it for monitoring is displayed.
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Customizing the lists of recommended actions
Click the filter tags on the upper part of the page to quickly filter your recommended actions by severity or acknowledgment status. To show recommended actions of a particular severity or status,click the appropriate tag. The tag is displayed in color. To hide those recommended actions, click the tag again. The tag is displayed without color.
For example, to show only recommended actions that have an error or warning severity, click Error and Warning. The Error and Warning tags are active and are displayed in color, as shown in the following screen capture:
You can also use the list of recommended actions to filter actions, sort rows, and show, hide, and reorder columns. For more information about customizing the list of recommended actions, see Filtering lists, Sorting lists, and Showing, hiding, and reordering columns in lists.
Viewing details of recommended actions
To view the details of a recommended action, double-click the recommended action. The recommended action details are displayed in a pane.
Click another recommended action to display its details. Alternatively, click the close icon .
Exporting recommended actions
You can export recommended actions from the table that displays the recommended actions to a file. For more information about exporting information to a file, see Exporting information to a file.
Types of recommended actions monitored
You can monitor all the Call Home events with recommended actions that are sent by devices to IBM.