Unisphere for PowerMax Anomaly Detection Alerts

Summary: Alerts observed in Unisphere for PowerMax and CloudIQ "Host IOs/sec () (x.x) exceeds threshold (y.y)" & "Host Throughput (MB/sec) (x.x) exceeds threshold (y.y)"

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Symptoms

Alerts observed in Unisphere for PowerMax and CloudIQ:

 

  • Host IOs/sec () (x.x) exceeds threshold (y.y)
  • Host Throughput (MB/sec) (x.x) exceeds threshold (y.y)

 

Alerts

Cause

Unisphere for PowerMax Anomaly detection and alerting is enabled: (Anomaly Detection is disabled by default)

 

Anomaly detection enabled

 

Resolution

Disable Anomaly Detection in Settings > Performance - Anomaly detection:

 

Anomaly detection disabled

Additional Information

Anomaly detection is disabled by default, and this can be observed in the Anomaly Detection Tab - Performance > Dashboards > System:    

 

Anomaly Detection Dashboard Disabled 

Here “Historic Seasonality” looks at the previous 15 days diagnostic data and builds the range of what is seen as “normal” behavior.

If a current value is outside that range, then it is deemed an anomaly.

 

e.g., As the host IO of "0" is outside the expected range of being between "398" and "2223" it is an anomaly:

 

Anomaly Dashboard

Affected Products

PowerMax, PowerMax, PowerMax 2000, PowerMax 2500, PowerMax 8000, PowerMax 8500, Unisphere for PowerMax
Article Properties
Article Number: 000311529
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 24 Apr 2025
Version:  1
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