EVA Physical Disk Status

This test reports the current operational state, capacity, and accessibility of each physical disk on the EVA array.

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 physical disk on the EVA array.

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 disk.

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 mode of each disk. The graph of this measure however, represents the status of a disk using the numeric equivalents only.

Formatted capacity

Indicates the current formatted capacity of this disk.

Millions of blocks

 

Drive state

Indicates the current drive state of this disk.

Status

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

State Value
Online 1
Offline 0
Unknown 2

Note:

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

Media accessibility

Indicates whether this disk is currently accessible or not.

Status

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

State Value
Yes 1
No 0
Unknown 2

Note:

By default, this measure reports the States listed in the table above to indicate whether this disk is accessible or not. The graph of this measure however, represents the States using the numeric equivalents only.

Failure predicted

Indicates whether failure of this disk 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 power supply unit has been predicted or not. The graph of this measure however, represents the States using the numeric equivalents only.