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Measures reported by HBladeServerStTest

The Hitachi Compute Blade 500 allows accommodating upto eight dual-socket-based blade servers in the chassis. The blade servers are configured in redundant scenario to ensure high-availability and operation continuity. The blade servers are powered by Intel Xeon E5 and E7 series processors such that the Hitachi Compute Blade 500 meets performance needs of large-scale systems that require extremely high compute power and I/O performance. Each blade server supports upto 30 logical partitions, which in turn simplifies building virtual environment and enables using virtualization to consolidate application and database servers. In addition, the blades servers provide flexible solution for scaling up your infrastructure without any complex requirements. Critical physical damage, unstable voltage fluctuations, management errors or network connectivity failures can render the blade servers unavailable/inoperable. It is therefore imperative that the administrators be notified instantly if the blade servers are not reachable by the clients. This can be achieved using the HBladeServerStTest test!

By continuously monitoring each blade server on the chassis, administrators can obtain the overall health, power status and maintenance mode of each blade server. This way, the administrators are alerted to abnormalities as soon as they occur and can take the required corrective actions before your mission-critical services begin to suffer. This test also reports current voltage and power consumption by each blade server.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Health_status Indicates the current health of this blade server.   The values that this measure can report and the numeric values they indicate have been listed in the table below:

Measure Value Numeric Value
Unknown 0.5
No Blade Server is Installed 0
Normal 1
Failed 2

Note:

By default, this measure can report the Measure Values mentioned above while indicating the current health of each blade server. However, the graph of this measure is indicated using the numeric equivalents.
Power_status Indicates the current power supply status of this blade server.   The values that this measure can report and the states they indicate have been listed in the table below:

State Measure Value
PowerOff 1
StandBy 2
PowerOn 3
Unknown 4
PowerOn-Executing 30
PowerOff-Executing 30

Note:

By default, this measure can report the Measure Values mentioned above while indicating the current power supply status of each blade server. However, the graph of this measure is indicated using the numeric equivalents.
Primary_status Indicates whether/not this blade server is primary.   The values that this measure can report and the states they indicate have been listed in the table below:

State Measure Value
Primary 1
Non Primary 2
Unknown 3

Note:

By default, this measure can report the Measure Values mentioned above while indicating the whether/not this blade server is primary. However, the graph of this measure is indicated using the numeric equivalents.
Maintenance_mode Indicates the current maintenance mode of this blade server.   The values that this measure can report and the states they indicate have been listed in the table below:

Mode Measure Value
Normal 1
CE Maintenance Mode 2
User Maintenance Mode 3
Unknown 4

Note:

By default, this measure can report the Measure Values mentioned above while indicating the current maintenance mode of the blade server. However, the graph of this measure is indicated using the numeric equivalents.
Voltage Indicates the current voltage of this blade server. Volts A sudden and significant rise in the value of this measure could be a cause of concern.
Power_consumption Indicates the amount of power consumed by this blade server. Amps Compare the value of this measure across the blade servers to know which blade server is power-intensive.