Table 21 About Performance Collectors (continued)

Column Heading

Description

 

 

Action

Displays one of the following buttons:

 

• Stop - Stops the collector. The corresponding reports display only

 

information gathered previously. See ”Stopping Performance

 

Collectors” on page 219.

 

• Start - Starts the collector. When you start a collector, it begins

 

gathering information for its corresponding reports. See ”Starting

 

Performance Collectors” on page 219.

 

 

Starting Performance Collectors

To start a collector:

1.Access the page for performance collectors (Optimize > Storage Essentials > Performance Data Collection).

2.Click the Start button corresponding to the collector you want to start.

To start more than one collector at once, select more than one collector on the Data Collection tab, and then click Start Collectors.

3.Set the date, time, and repeat interval for this task. For more information, see ”Editing a Collector Schedule” on page 222.

4.If you are asked to provide a proxy host, do the following:

a.Click Browse.

b.Select a proxy host from the menu, and then click OK.

c.Click OK again to set the time for starting the collector.

d.If you do not see any hosts displayed, verify that you have the latest CIM extension version installed and running on a host that can access the LSI storage system.

5.Click OK.

Stopping Performance Collectors

When you stop a collector, the management server stops gathering information for which the collector is responsible. For example, if a performance collector is not running, its corresponding statistics are no longer receiving information to display. One of the following occurs:

•If there was originally no information gathered for the statistic, no data appears for that statistic.

•If information was previously gathered for the statistic, old data appears for that statistic.

To stop a collector:

1.Access the page for performance collectors (Optimize > Storage Essentials > Performance Data Collection).

2.Click the Stop button corresponding to the collector you want to stop.

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