Monitoring - Probes

Use probes to collect statistics on the storage assets in your enterprise, such as computers, disk controllers, hard disks, clusters, fabrics, storage subsystems, LUNs, tape libraries, filesystems, etc. The results of probe jobs are stored in the repository and are used to supply the data necessary for generating a number of reports.

Note: To ensure the accuracy and consistency of the data that appears in the reports, run regularly scheduled probes against the hosts that use/import LUNs and the storage subsystems upon which you want to report. You should run probes against storage subsystems after running them against any hosts.

Field Descriptions

Field Name	Description
Creator	The ID of the user currently logged into the product session.
Name	The name of the job as defined by the creator. You define the name of a job when you select File > Save to save its definition.
Description	Enter a brief description of the job.
Enabled	Check this box to indicate the job should run according to the schedule you define on the When to Run page. If this box is unchecked, the job will not run at any time.

Managing probe jobs and runs

When you expand Probes node, the existing probe job definitions are displayed as subnodes.

To view or edit detailed information about an existing probe job: expand the Probes node and left-click on a job. Information about that job appears in the content pane on the What to PROBE, When to Run, and Alert pages. If you edit the information in these pages, you must select File > Save to save the changes.
To view information about the runs for a probe job: expand a probe job. Click on a job run to view information about that run in the content pane. Every time a probe job runs an entry for that run appears as a node beneath the job.
To refresh the list of runs for a job: right-click the job node and click Refresh.

Performing actions against probe jobs

You can perform a number of administrative actions against probe jobs.

To delete a probe job: right-click a job and select Delete from the pop-up menu.
To rename a probe job: right-click a job, select Delete, and enter the new name for the job.
To refresh the list of runs for a job: right-click the job node and click Refresh Job List.
To update the job's status: Update the status of a job. When you select this option, the product will update the visual indicator next to a job that indicates its status. For example, select this option to turn the status of any non-running jobs to red.
Note: While updating job statuses, the product contacts all the agents that currently have inflight jobs. In large environments with many agents, this process might take significant time to complete. During this time, an hourglass will appear on the user interface to indicate that the update job status process is running. If processing is taking too long to complete, you can click the X icon in the toolbar to continue working with the user interface.

If you cancel an update job status process for any reason, we recommend waiting before attempting to restart the process. This will provide the server time to complete the previously cancelled request and prevent any performance issues.
To view a job run history: right-click the job node and select History.
To run the job immediately (temporarily bypassing the schedule defined in the When to PROBE page): right-click the job node and select Run Now.