Monitoring the Physical Device Information

^{IBM-AUSTRIA - PC-HW-Support 30 Aug 1999}

Monitoring the Physical Device Information

Monitoring the Physical Device Information

You can monitor the physical device information by clicking on the desired device button on the Main screen of the Administration and Monitoring Program.

Descriptions of the fields that might appear on the Device Management screen are as follows.

NOTE: The number of fields that appear on the Device Management screen depend on the physical device selected.

Channel    The channel to which the device is connected (1, 2, or 3).

SCSI ID    The SCSI ID (0 to 15).

Vendor    The manufacturer of the physical device.

Serial Number    The manufacturer identifier.

Size    The size in megabytes.

State    The current state (see 'Physical Drive State Descriptions' and

   'Logical Drive State Descriptions' for more information).

Soft Event    The number of soft events reported from the device event log.

Hard Event    The number of hard events reported from the device event log.

Misc Event    The number of miscellaneous events reported from the device event log.

Parity Event    The number of parity events reported from the device event log.

PFA Event    Yes - device indicates predictive failure analysis event.

   No - device does not indicate predictive failure analysis error.

Channel	The channel to which the device is connected (1, 2, or 3).

SCSI ID	The SCSI ID (0 to 15).

Vendor	The manufacturer of the physical device.

Serial Number	The manufacturer identifier.

Size	The size in megabytes.

State	The current state (see 'Physical Drive State Descriptions' and
	'Logical Drive State Descriptions' for more information).

Soft Event	The number of soft events reported from the device event log.

Hard Event	The number of hard events reported from the device event log.

Misc Event	The number of miscellaneous events reported from the device event log.

Parity Event	The number of parity events reported from the device event log.

PFA Event	Yes - device indicates predictive failure analysis event.
	No - device does not indicate predictive failure analysis error.

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