PowerFlex: How to Use System Configuration Reporter SCR for Configuration and Health Assessment

Summary: System Configuration Reporter (SCR) for PowerFlex provides reports, health readiness assessments for 3.x‑to‑4.x upgrades, and logs for troubleshooting, downloadable from the PowerFlex portal. ...

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Instructions

What is SCR?

  • The System Configuration Reporter (SCR) is designed to provide an in-depth view into the configuration for the following PowerFlex systems: 
    • Rack
    • Appliance
    • Software Only
    • Custom Node
    • Ready Node

What information does SCR generate?

  • Configuration Reporting:
    • Produce detailed PowerFlex configuration reports available using UI and downloadable as Excel spreadsheets.
  • Health Assessment:
    • Based on the configuration data collected for the components in each profile, PowerFlex SCR includes a "Health Assessment" feature to assess the health and configuration of each component according to a pre-defined ruleset.
  • Readiness Assessment:
    • For PowerFlex 3.x collections, PowerFlex SCR includes a "Readiness Assessment" feature to assess PowerFlex 3.x implementations for readiness to upgrade to PowerFlex 4.x (SW only).
    • The Readiness Assessment feature is based on a pre-defined ruleset of checks that are recommended by satisfied to declare "readiness" to upgrade to PowerFlex 4.x.
    • The Readiness Assessment is specific to PowerFlex SW-only implementations (i.e., PowerFlex 3.x to 4.x).
  • PowerFlex Log Collection:
    • PowerFlex SCR includes the ability to generate logs (getInfo) for PowerFlex Gateway, PowerFlex Nodes, and the PowerFlex Management Platform (4.x) to assist with troubleshooting and remediation.

Links to download and documentation:
Go to SolVe - PowerFlex Family(Needs Customer Login) to download the SCR application and user guide:

  • Select the PowerFlex Family from the offerings
  • Go to Miscellaneous for the 'SCR Health Check Tool' link
  • Once clicked, it downloads and within the download will be a user guide with more details

download SCR 

Affected Products

PowerFlex rack, ScaleIO
Article Properties
Article Number: 000218973
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 26 يونيو 2026
Version:  5
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