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Getting quick results

MainView SRM Reporting offers a wide range of reports and features to help you manage your entire storage enterprise. Some of these reports require a period of time during which the collectors gather data. However, you can quickly get results from MainView SRM Reporting to complete the following tasks:

  • Monitor HSM errors (HSM-views)
  • Monitor HSM recall activity (HSM-views)
  • Evaluate historical pool performance (Performance)
  • Locate your worst-performing volume or UCB address by using real-time performance statistics (Volume-Performance-menu)
  • Locate your worst-performing physical device by using real-time performance statistics (Real-time-statistics)
  • Review a list of all applications (accounts) in your applications database and their associated allocations (Using-APPLTAB-line-commands)
  • Monitor HSM data set thrashing (HSM-views)
  • Generate data set reports based on criteria such as data set age or size, volume, storage group, or other criteria (Data-set-management)
  • Identify data sets with CI/CA or other potential problems by using the Data Set Analysis (EZDSA) menu options that are available from volume- and pool-related views (Group-EZMenu-EZPOOL)



 

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