About Real Time Status

The Real-time Status feature offers the following three separate real-time information utilities:

Health Monitor

Displays the filer host name or IP address and the current global status.

The status displays green for normal behavior,  yellow for non-critical problems, and red for critical problems.

             

Possible causes for non-critical and critical problems consist of the following.

Yellow light (non-critical problems)

Red light (critical problems)

Red light (critical problems)

Failed fans

Volumes are more than a certain percentage full

Temperature is over threshold

Real-time clock battery is dead

Failed power supplies

Cannot contact filer for a short period of time (filer or network is busy or down (for example, transient network failures)

Cannot contact filer (filer or network is down)

Not enough spare disks available on system

Cluster status is disabled; cannot takeover, or is in takeover mode

 

Performance Meter

Displays the filer operations activity per second. The colored bars that display in the Ops/sec window signify the following:

Note: See the table following the Filer At-A-Glance description for an explanation of the traffic light icon.

 

Filer At-A-Glance

Filer At-A-Glance displays the following filer information:

Usage by Volume % (click this link to get file system by volume): 

The colored bars that display in the Network File Ops/sec window signify the following:

The Performance Meter and Filer At-A-Glance utilities contain a traffic light icon, which designates the status of the communications with the filer. 

Traffic light color

Meaning

Green

Successful communications with the filer. This reflects that communication with the filer is successful, not that the filer is necessarily all right (except that it is actually up and responding to SNMP).

Yellow

Several timeouts in attempts to get filer status have occurred.

This could be caused by one of the following problems:

  • There is a network congestion resulting in a loss of packets.

  • There is a network disruption between the client and the filer.

  • The filer has recently become unavailable.

In the case of a short disruption, the color quickly returns to green. If disruption continues or the filer is down, the color eventually advances to red.

Red

Indicates that additional timeouts in attempts to get filer status have occurred (beyond those required to turn the color to yellow).

This could be caused by one of the following problems:

  • There is a network congestion resulting in a loss of packets.

  • There is a network disruption between the client and the filer.

  • The filer has recently become unavailable.

If the status returns to normal, the color returns to green.

All lights flashing

All lights flashing simultaneously and continuously could indicate one of the several problems:

  • The filer is down or otherwise unavailable.

  • There is a network disruption between the client and the filer.

  • SNMP is disabled on the filer.

  • There is a problem with the browser.

If status returns to normal, the color returns to green.

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