5.2 Viewing Anomaly Reports

The GSR Collector performs Anomaly Analysis that generates data for Anomaly Reports. These reports are designed to help you evaluate the state of your storage infrastructure. Additionally, they can be used in preparation for using Storage Manager to bring storage under management by policy. Anomaly data will be produced for each object and path type specified in the GSR Collector configuration.

By default, the following Anomaly Reports are available:

Anomaly Report

Explanation

Attribute Value Missing

The respective path attribute (such as home folder) does not have a value. For more information, see Attribute Value Missing.

Path Missing On Disk

The respective path attribute (such as home folder) value cannot be found on disk. For more information, see Path Missing on Disk.

Path Validation Issue

Attempting to retrieve or verify the existence of the respective path attribute (such as home folder) value failed. For more information, see Path Validation Issue.

Name Mismatch

The leaf path name of the respective attribute (such as home folder) value does not match that of the respective object’s name. For more information, see Name Mismatch.

Path Duplicate Value

Two or more objects have been detected that contain the same path for the respective path attribute (such as home folder). For more information, see Path Duplicate Value.

Path Parent CrossTalk

The object’s respective path attribute (such as home folder) has been detected as being the parent of another object’s path attribute (such as home folder). For more information, see Path Parent Crosstalk.

Path Child CrossTalk

The object’s respective path attribute (such as home folder) has been detected as being the subordinate of another object’s path attribute (such as home folder). For more information, see Path Child Crosstalk.

Orphan Path Candidate

The path is directly subordinate to a path at which other DS-associated paths have been found, but has not been detected as being associated with any DS object via a path attribute (such as home folder). For more information, see Orphan Path Candidate.

5.2.1 View Anomaly Reports

  1. In SMAdmin, click the Reports tab.

  2. Click GSR Anomaly.

  3. Within the graph, click the category you want to view.

    At this point, because none of your existing users are being managed through Storage Manager, each user in Active Directory should be listed when you click Objects Not Managed. Additionally, you might notice other potential problems by viewing data categorized in other areas.