EVA I/O Bus Test

This test reports the current status of each enclosure communication bus.

Target of the test : An EVA Storage Array

Agent deploying the test : A remote agent

Outputs of the test : One set of results for each enclosure communication bus on the controller.

Configurable parameters for the test
Parameter Description

Test Period

How often should the test be executed.

Host

The host for which the test is to be configured.

Port

Refers to the port used by the EVA SAN device.  By default, it is null.

EVASystemIP

Specify the IP address of the HP EVA SAN.

ArrayName

Specify the name of the EVA SAN array that has been configured for monitoring.

SSSULocation

Install the SSSU.exe software and specify the full path to the install directory of this software here.

Username and
Password

Specify the user credentials using which the HP EVA array is to be accessed.

Confirm Password

Confirm the password by retyping it here. 

Timeout

Indicate the duration (in seconds) for which this test should wait for a response from the storage device. By default, this is set to 120 seconds.
Measurements made by the test
Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation

Operational mode

Indicates the current operational mode of this bus.

Status

The values that this measure can report and the states they indicate are tabulated below:

State Value
good or attention or normal 1
Failed or bad 0
Unknown or not available or notinstalled or not_present or unsupported, etc. 2

Note:

By default, this measure reports the States listed in the table above to indicate the current operational status of each bus. The graph of this measure however, represents the status of a bus using the numeric equivalents only.

Failure predicted

Indicates whether failure of the bus has been predicted.

Status

The values that this measure can report and the states they indicate are tabulated below:

State Value
No 1
Yes 0
Unknown 2

Note:

By default, this measure reports the States listed in the table above to indicate whether the failure of this bus has been predicted. The graph of this measure however, represents the States using the numeric equivalents only.

Bus status

Indicates the current status of this bus.

Status

The values that this measure can report and the states they indicate are tabulated below:

State Value
enabled 1
disabled 0
unknown 2

Note:

By default, this measure reports the States listed in the table above to indicate the current status of each bus The graph of this measure however, represents the status of a bus using the numeric equivalents only.