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Viewing the status of storage devices

You can view a summary and detailed status for the managed storage devices from Lenovo XClarity Administrator.

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About this task

The following status icons are used to indicate the overall health of the device. If the certificates do not match, (Untrusted) is appended to the status of each applicable device, for example Warning (Untrusted). If there is a connectivity issue or a connection to the device is not trusted, (Connectivity) is appended to the status of each applicable device, for example Warning (Connectivity).

  • (Critical status icon) Critical

  • (Warning status icon) Warning

  • (Pending status icon) Pending

  • (Informational icon) Informational

  • (Normal status icon) Normal

  • (Offline status icon) Offline

  • (Unknown icon) Unknown

Procedure

To view the status for a managed storage device, complete one or more of the following actions.

  • From the Lenovo XClarity Administrator menu bar, click Dashboard. The dashboard page is displayed with an overview and status of all managed storage devices and other resources.


    Illustrates the component status summaries on the dashboard.

  • From the Lenovo XClarity Administrator menu bar, click Hardware > Storage. The Storage page is displayed with a tabular view of all storage devices that are installed in managed chassis.

    You can sort the table columns to make it easier to find the storage devices that you want to manage. In addition, enter text (such as a system name or IP address) in the Filter field and click the status icons to list only those storage devices that meet the selected criteria.


    Illustrates the list of managed storage devices in the Storage page.
    From this page, you can perform the following actions:
    • View detailed information about the storage device and its components (see Viewing the details of a storage device).
    • View a storage device in graphical rack or chassis view by clicking All Actions > Views > Show in Rack View or All Actions > Views > Show in Chassis View.
    • Launch the management controller web interface for the storage device by clicking the IP address link (see Launching the management controller interface for a storage device).
    • Power the storage controller in the storage device on and off (see Powering on and off a storage device).

    • Modify system information by selecting a storage device and clicking All Actions > Inventory > Edit Properties.

    • Refresh inventory by selecting a storage device and clicking All Actions > Inventory > Refresh Inventory.

    • Export detailed information about one or more storage devices to a single CSV file by selecting the storage devices and clicking All Actions > Inventory > Export Inventory.
      Note
      You can export inventory data for a maximum of 60 devices at one time.
      Tip
      When importing a CSV file into Microsoft Excel, Excel treats text values that contain only numbers as numeric values (for example, for UUIDs). Format each cell as text to correct this error.

    • Unmanaged the storage device (see Unmanaging a storage device).

    • (Flex System storage devices only) Virtually reseat the storage controller in the storage device (see Virtually reseating storage controllers in a Flex System storage device).
    • Exclude events that are of no interest to you from all pages on which events are displayed by clicking the Exclude events icon (Selected events icon). (see Excluding events).
    • Resolve issues that might arise between the Lenovo XClarity Administrator security certificate and the security certificate of the CMM in the chassis where the storage device is installed by selecting a storage device and clicking All Actions > Security > Resolve Untrusted Certificates (see Resolving an untrusted server certificate).

    • Add or remove a storage device from a static resource group by clicking All Actions > Groups > Add to Group or All Actions > Groups > Remove from Group.