10.1 Monitoring Options

maxView Storage Manager provides many ways to monitor the status of your storage space:

• Event Log—The main window of maxView Storage Manager features an event log that provides at-a-glance status information about activity (or events) occurring in your storage space. All Warning- and Error-level events are also recorded in your operating system's event log.

  See Viewing Activity Status in the Event Log and Changing an Operating System's Event Log Setting.

• Task Log—The main window also features a task log that provides status information about the progress of tasks in your storage space, such as the creation of a logical drive.

  See Viewing Task Status in the Task Log.

• Storage Dashboard—Occupying the largest portion of the main window in maxView Storage Manager, the Storage Dashboard provides complete, at-a-glance, information about the components of your storage space, including status information, physical and logical device properties, resources, and reliability indicators for NVMe SSDs.

  See Viewing Component Status in the Storage Dashboard.

• Chart View—Provides a visual representation of free and used space for a system, controller, or your entire storage space.

  See Viewing Storage Space Usage in Chart View.

• Notifications—You can set maxView Storage Manager to email status notifications in your choice of format to help you monitor activities in your storage space, such as:
  • Changes in the status of physical devices, such as physical drive failures.
  • Changes on local or remote systems, such as the creation of a hot spare.

  See Notifying Users by Email About Status and Activity .

• Audible Alarm—A series of beeps sounds whenever a serious event occurs on your storage space.