PRTG Manual: Dell PowerVault MDi Physical Disk Sensor

Dell Modular Disk Storage Manager

This sensor requires the installation of the Dell Modular Disk Storage Manager program. You must install it on the probe system (on every cluster node, if on a cluster probe). For details about setup, see section More below.

Create this sensor on a device that has the IP address of the SAN configured in the IP Address/DNS Name field of the sensor settings.

Sensor Name

Enter a name to identify the sensor. By default, PRTG shows this name in the device tree, as well as in alarms, logs, notifications, reports, maps, libraries, and tickets.

If the name contains angle brackets (<>), PRTG replaces them with braces ({}) for security reasons. For more information, see the Knowledge Base: What security features does PRTG include?

Parent Tags

The tags that the sensor inherits from its parent device, parent group, and parent probe.

This setting is for your information only. You cannot change it.

Tags

Enter one or more tags. Confirm each tag with the Spacebar key, a comma, or the Enter key. You can use tags to group objects and use tag-filtered views later on. Tags are not case-sensitive. Tags are automatically inherited.

It is not possible to enter tags with a leading plus (+) or minus (-) sign, nor tags with parentheses (()) or angle brackets (<>).

For performance reasons, it can take some minutes until you can filter for new tags that you added.

The sensor has the following default tags that are automatically predefined in the sensor's settings when you add the sensor:

• powervault

Priority

Select a priority for the sensor. This setting determines the position of the sensor in lists. The highest priority is at the top of a list. Choose from the lowest priority () to the highest priority ().

Physical Disk

The physical disk that this sensor monitors.

Result Handling

Define what PRTG does with the sensor result:

• Discard result: Do not store the sensor result.

• Store result: Store the last sensor result in the \Logs\sensors subfolder of the PRTG data directory on the probe system. The file names are Result of Sensor [ID].txt and Result of Sensor [ID].Data.txt. This setting is for debugging purposes. PRTG overwrites these files with each scanning interval.

In a cluster, PRTG stores the result in the PRTG data directory of the master node.

Primary Channel

Select a channel from the list to define it as the primary channel. In the device tree, the last value of the primary channel is always displayed below the sensor's name. The available options depend on what channels are available for this sensor.

You can set a different primary channel later by clicking below a channel gauge on the sensor's Overview tab.

Graph Type

Define how different channels are shown for this sensor:

• Show channels independently (default): Show a graph for each channel.
• Stack channels on top of each other: Stack channels on top of each other to create a multi-channel graph. This generates a graph that visualizes the different components of your total traffic.
  You cannot use this option in combination with manual Vertical Axis Scaling (available in the channel settings).

Stack Unit

This setting is only visible if you enable Stack channels on top of each other as Graph Type. Select a unit from the list. All channels with this unit are stacked on top of each other. By default, you cannot exclude single channels from stacking if they use the selected unit. However, there is an advanced procedure to do so.

Up status: Optimal

Unassigned

The physical disk in the indicated slot is unused and available to be configured

Assigned

The physical disk in the indicated slot is configured as part of a disk group

Hot Spare Standby

The physical disk in the indicated slot is configured as a hot spare

Hot Spare In Use

The physical disk in the indicated slot is in use as a hot spare within a disk group

Down status: Failed

• Assigned
• Unassigned
• Hot Spare In Use
• Hot Spare Standby

The physical disk in the indicated slot has failed because of an unrecoverable error, an incorrect drive type or drive size, or by its operational state being set to failed

Up status: Replaced

Assigned

The physical disk in the indicated slot has been replaced and is ready to be, or is actively being, configured into a disk group

Down status: Pending Failure

• Assigned
• Unassigned
• Hot Spare In Use
• Hot Spare Standby

A S.M.A.R.T. error has been detected on the physical disk in the indicated slot

Warning status: None

None

The indicated slot is empty, or the array cannot detect the physical disk

Down status: Undefined