Broadcasting Alerts About Status and Activity
You can set maxView Storage Manager to send status alerts about a specified system to all users who
are logged into your storage space. You might want to do this if your storage space isn't managed by a
dedicated person, or if that particular system is off-site or not connected to a monitor. Event alerts
signal everyone working on the storage space that a system requires technical assistance.
When you set maxView Storage Manager to broadcast event alerts, all logged-in users receive messages
about all types of events. In Windows, these alerts appear as pop-up messages; in all other operating
systems, these alerts appear as console messages.
Note: Event alerts are independent of email notifications (see
Notifying Users by
Email About Status and Activity
on page 93).
To enable event alerts:
1. In the Enterprise View, select a system.
2. On the ribbon, in the System group, click System Settings.
The Agent Settings window for that system opens.
3. Click Broadcast Events to Logged-In Users, then click OK.
4. Restart maxView Storage Manager to apply the change.
Monitoring Advanced Statistics about Activity in Your Storage Space
You can set maxView Storage Manager to log advanced I/O and usage statistics about the RAID controllers,
hard drives, SSDs, and logical drives in your storage space, including maxCache caching statistics.
Follow the instructions in this section to:
• Enable statistics logging on a controller (see
Setting up Statistics Logging
on page 99).
• View the advanced statistics for a controller, hard drive, SSD, or logical drive (see
Viewing Advanced
Statistics
on page 100).
• Reset the statistics counters (see
Resetting the Statistics Counters
on page 101).
Setting up Statistics Logging
To set up statistics logging for the controllers in your storage space:
1. In the Enterprise View, select a system, then select a controller.
2. On the ribbon, in the Controller group, click Set Properties.
The Set Properties window opens.
3. In the Advanced Statistics drop-down list, select
Enabled
.
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