Hitachi Command Suite 8 User Guide

5.Verify the settings and click  Apply.Tip: The Tasks pane automatically updates every 60 seconds by default.
To change the interval, from the tree view, right-click the target storage
system, and then select  Other Functions. From the displayed window,
click  Setting > Environmental Settings > Edit Information Display
Setting , then specify the refresh interval for the tasks list.
Related concepts
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About tasks  on page 382
Related tasks
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Troubleshooting system tasks  on page 391
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Viewing system task...

Note: HCS can manage many storage systems. Therefore you can
manage up to 100,000 tasks before the oldest tasks start getting
deleted. Because system tasks are created for VSP G1000 storage only, the system task list will display 384 tasks, including up to 128
tasks with a status of In Progress, Waiting, or Suspended, and up to
256 tasks with a status of Completed or Failed. Enable Auto Delete is
recommended.
• When a task does not complete, it can be that the storage system configuration changed. To...

Related tasks
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Restarting a data collection task  on page 393
Restarting a data collection task Data collection tasks might fail due to a communication error or because thetarget storage system has an exclusive control lock in place. Data collection
tasks that fail before they complete can be restarted. Restarted tasks inherit the values that were set when the task was registered.
Procedure 1. On the  Administration  tab, select Managed Resources .
2. On the  Data Collection Tasks  tab, review the...

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Monitoring managed resources andresolving alerts
This module describes how to monitor managed resources and alerts in a
Storage Area Network (SAN).
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Monitoring storage resources
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Viewing information summaries
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Analyzing storage system performance
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Analyzing Universal Replicator performance
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Managing alerts
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Monitoring storage resourcesYou can check the status of storage resources to detect problems and outputreports to a CSV or PDF file containing search results or configuration and
capacity information about storage systems, hosts, volumes, logical groups,
and other storage resources.
If you have the Tiered Storage Manager license, you can see the operationalstatus of storage resources from the Mobility tab and perform integrated operations to optimize data placement.
If you have the Tuning Manager...

In summary, you can:
• View summary information from the Dashboard tab. • Check alerts from the Tasks & Alerts tab or the dashboard.• Search storage resources from the Search box on the tabs bar. • Reference data migration information from the Mobility tab.
• Analyze performance from the Analytics tab. • Analyze Universal Replicator performance from the UR Performance Analysis window of the Replication tab.
Viewing information summaries This module describes how to view summary information for...

Reserved, Mainframe, and Free volumes. This chart applies to all of the
managed storage systems, collectively. Because capacities are calculated based on actual volume capacities, the capacity of virtual volumes, such as
DP volumes, is not included.
• Failed HCS Tasks:  A list of failed HCS tasks submitted by you or other
users. Each item includes the task name, task type, and description for the
failed task. Clicking the Task column link for a task that you submitted
allows you to view task details,...

○Top 10 File Systems:  When HCS is linked with a file server (Hitachi
NAS Platform family, Hitachi NAS Platform F (HNAS F) or Hitachi Data Ingestor (HDI)), information about file systems that have a large
capacity usage rate or free area can be checked to see if there is
insufficient free space. By default, the allocated capacity usage rate is
displayed in descending order. Clicking the column header of other
items displays the top 10 file system information again, ordered by the
selected item. You can...

The title bar of each report has a right arrow icon [–>] that when clicked,
takes you to another tab to review related detail information.
For example, clicking the arrow icon for the  Storage System Alerts report
displays the Tasks & Alerts tab with summary and detail information for
alerts.
Click the Dashboard tab to re-display the dashboard reports.
When viewing Dashboard reports, click links to review specific detail.
For example, in the  Top 10 Consumers  report, clicking a specific host or...