Recovery Guru

The Recovery Guru is a component of MDSM that diagnoses critical events on the storage array and recommends step-by-step recovery procedures for problem resolution.

In the AMW, to display the Recovery Guru, perform one of these actions:

Click Recovery Guru .

In the Support tab, click the Recover from Failure link.

From the Status pane on the Summary tab, click the Storage Array Needs Attention link.

You can detect a problem using the following indicators:

Non-Optimal status icons

Alert notification messages that are sent to the appropriate destinations

Hardware indicator lights

The status icons return to Optimal status as problems are resolved.

Storage Array Profile

The storage array profile provides a description of all of the components and properties of the storage array. The storage array profile also provides the option to save the storage array profile information to a text file. You might want to use the storage array profile as an aid during recovery or as an overview of the current configuration of the storage array. Create a new copy of the storage array profile if your configuration changes.

1To open the storage array profile, in the AMW, perform one of the following actions:

Select Storage ArrayViewProfile.

Select the Summary tab, and click Storage Array Profile in the Status area.

Select the Support tab, and click View Storage Array Profile.

The Storage Array Profile dialog appears. The Storage Array Profile dialog contains several tabs, and the title of each tab corresponds to the subject of the information contained.

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