The management information base (MIB) is self-documenting and lists the Oracle FS System resources that you can monitor. You can download the text-based MIB from the Utilities page of the Pilot management interface or using Oracle FS System Manager (GUI).
Some of the Oracle FS System resources that a system administrator can monitor are listed below. Some of this information can be used, for example, to graph or otherwise track the trend lines of certain resources, such as that for storage space and its utilization and for I/O operations for each second (IOPS) over certain time periods.
System Alerts are the notifications that the Oracle FS System generates to identify conditions that warrant investigation and action.
Notifications about resources that are not fully operational, indicating a need for maintenance.
Notifications about insufficient storage, indicating a need for a reallocation of resources, a cleanup of resources, or possibly the purchase of additional storage. This kind of information is important when an administrator has implemented thin provisioning for one or more logical volumes.
The time of collection
The availability status
The type of information that is contained in the logs
Pilot restarts
System restarts
Topology rediscovery
This category is also useful for seeing when a planned task has completed or might need recovery, such as when replicating a very large logical volume.
Querying this resource allows the administrator to determine which tasks are scheduled and when they are scheduled. Knowing this information can be useful in determining whether some traps or events can be expected.
Capturing software versions is useful in a large data center. To determine which Oracle FS System requires updates or to discover whether a software update is complete, you must access each system individually. Those multiple accesses can be combined into a single task by using an SNMP management utility to perform the queries.
Monitoring short term trends and long term trends in capacity usage helps the system administrator avoid getting System Alerts warnings, for example, that Clone LUNs are being deleted to free up capacity. Because you can over‑allocate logical volumes when using the thin provisioning feature, such volumes need to be monitored and can require additional physical storage.
LUNs
Interfaces
Clones
LUN mapping and masking
Traps are equivalent to email-based administrator alerts and provide another means of alerting system administrators to unfavorable storage conditions, which might result in a system alert.