33.11 About Storage Metrics

This section describes the steps to view the Storage Configuration metrics and Storage Performance metrics. It also describes the steps to change the Storage Performance metrics. Following are the items listed in this section:

33.11.1 Viewing Storage Performance Metrics

To view the storage performance metrics, perform the following steps:

  1. From the Targets menu, select All Targets.
  2. In the left navigation pane, expand Servers, Storage and Network target type.

    You can view a list of appliance targets under Servers, Storage and Network.

    Note:

    To view the cluster targets, expand Groups, Systems and Services in the left navigation pane. Select a specific cluster target in the right pane.

  3. Click a specific appliance target under Servers, Storage and Network.

    The target name, target type, and the target status of the selected target is displayed in the right pane.

  4. You can view the performance metrics of the selected target by following one of these methods:

    • Right-click on a target name in the right pane to view the related options.

    • Click a specific target in the right pane, and then click the target drop-down list which appears to the top-left of the user interface.

  5. Select Monitoring and click All Metrics.

You can view the list of metric collection overview, different metric events such as open alerts and top five altering metrics in the last 7 days, and deployed metric extension information.

33.11.2 Viewing Storage Configuration Metrics

To view a storage configuration metrics, perform the following steps:

  1. From the Targets menu, select All Targets.
  2. In the left navigation pane, expand Servers, Storage and Network target type.

    You can view a list of appliance targets under Servers, Storage and Network.

    Note:

    To view the cluster targets, expand Groups, Systems and Services in the left navigation pane. Select a specific cluster target in the center pane.

  3. Click a specific appliance target under Servers, Storage and Network.

    The target name, target type, and the target status of the selected target is displayed in the right pane.

  4. You can proceed to view the storage configuration metrics by following one of these methods:

    • Right-click on a target name in the right pane to view the related options.

    • Click a specific target name in the right pane, and then click the target drop-down list which appears to the top-left of the user interface.

  5. Select Configuration and click Last Collected.
  6. Select a configuration metric from the left navigation pane to view the configuration properties of the selected metric.

33.11.3 Changing Metric Collection

Oracle Enterprise Manager monitors storage resources and collects information about them to track performance. You can change what metrics are collected and, in some cases, change how the metrics are collected, for example, the frequency.

To change the performance metrics of a selected target, perform the following steps:

  1. From the Targets menu, select All Targets.
  2. In the left navigation pane, expand Servers, Storage and Network target type.

    You can view a list of appliance targets under Servers, Storage and Network.

    Note:

    To view the cluster targets, expand Groups, Systems and Services in the left navigation pane. Select a specific cluster target in the right pane.

  3. Click a specific appliance target under Servers, Storage and Network.

    The target name, target type, and the target status of the selected target is displayed in the right pane.

  4. You can proceed to view the performance metrics by following one of these methods:

    • Right-click on any of the target name in the right pane to view the related options.

    • Click a specific target name in the right pane, and then click the target drop-down list which appears to the top-left of the user interface.

  5. Select Monitoring and click All Metrics.

    You can view details of the different metrics.

  6. In the left navigation pane, select a specific metric. If this metric can be changed, a Modify button appears in the right pane for Collection Schedule.
  7. Click Modify.
  8. In the Modify Collection Schedule window, change the value to adjust the collection of the metric, usually the frequency and how the metric is used. Make a note of the metrics that are dependent on this change, so that you can change their collection, if necessary.
  9. Click OK to save the changes.