17 Storage Reporting Views

This chapter provides a description of each storage reporting view and its columns. It contains the following sections:

For examples of how to use views, see Chapter 20, "Examples".

17.1 MGMT$STORAGE_REPORT_DATA

The MGMT$STORAGE_REPORT_DATA view displays the Storage Data metric attributes which are common across all instrumented Storage Entities.

Table 17-1 MGMT$STORAGE_REPORT_DATA

Column Description

TARGET_NAME

Target Name in Enterprise Manager

TARGET_TYPE

Target Type in Enterprise Manager

KEY_VALUE

Unique Key Value for the Storage Entity

GLOBAL_UNIQUE_ID

A globally unique persistent identifier for a storage entity. All instances of a shared Storage Entity will have the same global_unique_identifier

NAME

Name of the storage entity

STORAGE_LAYER

Storage layer of the storage entity.

Sample Usage:

- OS_DISK

- VOLUME_MANAGER

- LOCAL_FILESYSTEM

- NFS

ENTITY_TYPE

Indicates the type of Entity. Value is vendor specific.

Example: Plex, Sub Disk, Diskgroup, Volume group, Metadevice and so on.

RAWSIZEB

Total space in bytes

SIZEB

Size in bytes

USEDB

Used size in bytes

FREEB

Free size in bytes


17.2 MGMT$STORAGE_REPORT_KEYS

The MGMT$STORAGE_REPORT_KEYS view displays the relationship between instrumented Storage Entities.

Table 17-2 MGMT$STORAGE_REPORT_KEYS

Column Description

TARGET_NAME

Target Name in Enterprise Manager

TARGET_TYPE

Target type in Enterprise Manager

KEY_VALUE

Unique KEY_VALUE for the storage entity

PARENT_KEY_VALUE

Key value for the parent storage entity.


17.3 MGMT$STORAGE_REPORT_PATHS

The MGMT$STORAGE_REPORT_PATHS view displays the OS paths for all instrumented storage entities.

Table 17-3 MGMT$STORAGE_REPORT_PATHS

Column Description

TARGET_NAME

Target name in Enterprise Manager

TARGET_TYPE

Target type in Enterprise Manager

KEY_VALUE

Unique key value for the storage entity

NAME

Name of the storage entity

PATH

OS path to the storage entity

FILE_TYPE

Type of file

Examples:

- _BLOCKSPECIAL

- _DIRECTORY

- _REGULAR

STORAGE_LAYER

Storage layer of the storage entity.

Sample Usage:

- OS_DISK

- VOLUME_MANAGER

- LOCAL_FILESYSTEM

- NFS

ENTITY_TYPE

Indicates the type of entity. Value is vendor-specific.

Examples: Plex, Sub Disk, Diskgroup, Volume group, Metadevice, and so on.


17.4 MGMT$STORAGE_REPORT_ISSUES

The MGMT$STORAGE_REPORT_ISSUES view displays the consistency issues encountered when analyzing the instrumented storage metrics.

Table 17-4 MGMT$STORAGE_REPORT_ISSUES

Column Description

TARGET_NAME

Target name in Enterprise Manager

TARGET_TYPE

Target type in Enterprise Manager

TYPE

Type of inconsistency. Value can be:

- MAPPING_ISSUE

- MAPPING_WARNING

MESSAGE_COUNT

Count of the number of messages


17.5 MGMT$STORAGE_REPORT_DISK

The MGMT$STORAGE_REPORT_DISK view displays Additional Storage Data Metric Attributes for all physical disk device storage entities.

Table 17-5 MGMT$STORAGE_REPORT_DISK

Column Description

TARGET_NAME

Target name in Enterprise Manager

TARGET_TYPE

Target type in Enterprise Manager

ENTITY_TYPE

Indicates the type of disk device such as disk or disk partition

USED_PATH

The OS path to the disk or partition. If the disk or partition is allocated, then this is the path that is in use.

FILE_TYPE

Type of file

Examples:- _BLOCKSPECIAL- _REGULAR

SIZEB

Size in bytes

USEDB

Used size in bytes

FREEB

Free size in bytes

VENDOR

Name of the disk vendor; detected through SCSI enquiry

PRODUCT

Product family from the vendor; detected through SCSI enquiry


17.6 MGMT$STORAGE_REPORT_VOLUME

The MGMT$STORAGE_REPORT_VOLUME view displays Additional Storage Data Metric attributes for all volume manager storage entities.

Table 17-6 MGMT$STORAGE_REPORT_VOLUME

Column Description

TARGET_NAME

Target name in Enterprise Manager

TARGET_TYPE

Target type in Enterprise Manager

VENDOR

Vendor name of the volume or software raid manager

PRODUCT

Vendor name of the volume or software raid manager

TYPE

Indicates the type of volume entity. It can be vendor specific.

For example, in the case of Veritas Volume Manager for Volume, Plex, VM Disk, Diskgroup, Sub Disk, Metadevice, Metadevice Partition, Array, Raiddevice, Submirror, Diskset, Slice, raid-disk, spare-disk, Hot spare, and so on.

DISK_GROUP

Disk group or volume group name

NAME

The name of the entity in the volume manager namespace

USED_PATH

The OS path to the device. If the device is allocated, then this is the path that is in use.

FILE_TYPE

Type of file

Examples:- _BLOCKSPECIAL- _REGULAR

RAWSIZEB

In bytes.

For a 2-way mirrored Veritas Volume. It is the sum of the size of each plex.

SIZEB

Size in bytes

USEDB

Used size in bytes

FREEB

Free size in bytes

CONFIGURATION

A string describing the configuration of the volume.


17.7 MGMT$STORAGE_REPORT_LOCALFS

The MGMT$STORAGE_REPORT_LOCALFS view displays Additional Storage Data Metric attributes for all local file system storage entities.

Table 17-7 MGMT$STORAGE_REPORT_LOCALFS

Column Description

TARGET_NAME

Target name in Enterprise Manager

TARGET_TYPE

Target type in Enterprise Manager

FILESYSTEM_TYPE

The type of file system

FILESYSTEM

The file system path on the operating system

MOUNTPOINT

The mount point path on the operating system

SIZEB

Number

USEDB

Used size in bytes

FREEB

Free size in bytes


17.8 MGMT$STORAGE_REPORT_NFS

The MGMT$STORAGE_REPORT_NFS view displays Additional Storage Data Metric attributes for all network file systems.

Table 17-8 MGMT$STORAGE_REPORT_NFS

Column Description

TARGET_NAME

Target name in Enterprise Manager

TARGET_TYPE

Target type in Enterprise Manager

FILESYSTEM

The file system name as seen on the operating system. For NFS file systems the file system name should be in the format nfs_server:/filesystem_name

MOUNTPOINT

The mountpoint path on the operating system

SIZEB

Size in bytes

USEDB

Used size in bytes,

FREEB

Free size in bytes

NFS_SERVER

The server name for the NFS Server

NFS_SERVER_IP_ADDRESS

The IP address of the NFS Server

NFS_VENDOR

The NFS Server vendor

MOUNT_PRIVILEGE

This is the mount privilege of the file system

Possible values:

  • Read

  • Write