Monitoring and controlling hardware devices

XBM provides monitors for showing the status of hardware devices and functions.

Related topic

Setting-up-XBM-to-enable-snapshot-processing

XBM includes monitors for the following types of objects:

  • PPRC objects
  • EMC TimeFinder objects
  • Hitachi ShadowImage and Remote Copy objects

The following figure shows an example of a hardware monitor for EMC TimeFinder objects. This monitor shows the EMC TimeFinder devices that XBM discovered when the XBM subsystem was started. This information includes such items as the total number of standard volumes and business continuance volumes (BCVs), as well as information about specific devices.

File  View  Options  Console  Monitor  User  Help                            
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------     
     EMC TimeFinder Objects on 04/19/2008 at 16:57: Row 1 to 7 of 2,072
                                                                               
 STD devices  . . :   2000           BCV devices . . . :     72                 
 Synchronized . . :   1848           SRDF sources  . . :    132                 
 Sync in progress :      0           SRDF targets  . . :     29                 
                                                                               
 Select actions on the following EMC TimeFinder objects, then press             
 enter.                                                                         
 1=Zoom 2=Establish 3=ReEstablish 4=Split 5=Restore 6=IncRestore                
 7=HoldBCV 8=ReleaseBCV                                                         
 S   Addr  DType  Status   Volser  DNum  Type  Sync    PDev  SRDF               
 _   0BC0  3390   Online   AFXBC0  0340  STD   Yes     05A5  No                 
 _   0BC1  3390   Online   AFXBC1  0341  STD   Yes     05A6  No                 
 _   0BC2  3390   Online   AFXBC2  0342  STD   Yes     05A7  No                 
 _   0BC3  3390   Online   AFXBC3  0343  STD   Yes     05A8  No                 
 _   0BC4  3390   Online   AFXBC4  0344  STD   Yes     05A9  No                 
BMC73957I View is by SRDF. View selection filtering is active.                 
 Command ===> ______________________________________________________________    
  F1=Help      F2=Split     F3=Exit      F6=Zoom      F7=Bkwd      F8=Fwd       
  F9=Swap     F10=Actions  F12=Cancel



 

Tip: For faster searching, add an asterisk to the end of your partial query. Example: cert*