SPS Battery Test Alerts

I received few mail alerts from EMC Storage box as below,

“Time Stamp ‘date’ 01:10:40 (GMT) Event Number 2580 Severity Error Host SPB Storage Array ‘Serial No’ SP N/A Device N/A Description Storage Array Faulted Enclosure 0 : Faulted Enclosure 0 SPS A : Faulted”

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“Time Stamp ‘date’ 01:00:40 (GMT) Event Number 2580 Severity Error Host SPB Storage Array ‘Serial No’ SP N/A Device N/A Description Storage Array Faulted Enclosure 0 : Faulted Enclosure 0 SPS B : Faulted”

sps-b

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T1

Conclusion:

This is not an issue.Each week the SP runs a battery self-test to ensure that the monitoring circuitry is working in each SPS. While the test runs, storage-system write caching is disabled, but communication with the server continues. I/O performance may decrease during the test. When the test is finished, storage-system write caching is re-enabled automatically. The factory default setting for the battery test is set to start at 1:00 a.m. on Sunday, which you can change. Please find the below SP events while battery test.

sps events

Multiple Accounts Login in Gtalk

  • Go to Gtalk installed directory. Normally path would be “C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe”
  • Create shortcut for “googletalk.exe” and go to your shortcut add /nomutex switch in target
  • After adding /nomutex switch you can login Gtalk with multiple accounts

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