The Dashboard

When you first login to IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager or close all the active windows, the content pane displays the dashboard. The dashboard provides a concise, yet detailed overview of the health of your storage environment. It enables you to quickly point out potential problem areas that need further investigation. The dashboard contains four displayable areas and seven panels that you can cycle through to view your environment's storage information.

Click the Refresh button to update the displayed panels. Click the Cycle Panels button to cycle through the following panels in the dashboard:

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Enterprise-wide Summary

provides an enterprise-wide summary of your storage.

This includes:

  • Filesystem capacity - total amount of allocated storage space

  • Filesystem used space - total amount of used storage space

  • Filesystem Free space - total amount of available storage space

  • Disk Capacity - total amount of allocated and unallocated storage space

  • Disk Unallocated Space - amount of unused space unallocated to filesystems

  • LUN Capacity - storage capacity of all LUNs visible to (surfaced on) each reported computer

  • Usable LUN Capacity - storage capacity of LUNs in the created disk array (not including BCVs, VCM database, and Replication targets)

  • Monitored Servers - number of monitored servers

  • Unmonitored Servers - number of unmonitored servers

  • Users - number of users

  • Disks - number of disks

  • Filesystems - number of filesystems

  • Directories - number of directories

  • Files - number of files

Filesystem Used Space

displays the total amount of used storage space across the entire network.

Users Consuming the Most Space (chart)

displays:

  • a list of the users consuming the most space within your environment

  • a graphical view of the amount of space they are consuming

Monitored Server Summary

displays:

  • the number of monitored machines running each OS type

  • total amount of filesystem and disk capacity per OS type

Filesystems with Least Free Space Percentage

shows the monitored machines with the least percentage of free space, including the:

  • the percent of free space on each machine

  • the total filesystem capacity on each machine

  • the name of the machines and filesystems/mountpoints

Users Consuming the Most Space report

displays:

  • a list of the users consuming the most space within your environment

  • the total amount of storage each user is consuming

Alerts Pending

displays the active alerts that are still pending. These alerts are organized by:

  • All

  • Computer

  • Disk

  • Filesystem

  • Directory

  • User Quota

  • OS User Group Quota

  • Directed to user