Dell PowerVault ME5 Series Storage System CLI Reference Guide

start metrics


Description	Starts retention of specified dynamic metrics. The system automatically retains historical metrics and the last 5 minutes of all dynamic metrics. This command retains select dynamic metrics beyond 5 minutes, to a maximum of 4 hours of data points. It retains a few hours of 5-second-sampled data points. The oldest data points are automatically deleted as internal storage gets full. Repeatedly calling this command is additive. That is, metrics are added to the existing list of metrics without clearing the list.
Minimum role	monitor
Syntax	start metrics metrics-list
Parameters	metrics-list A comma-separated list of individual dynamic metrics instances to start retaining.
Examples	Start retaining individual dynamic metrics. # start metrics controller.read-ops.A,controller.read-ops.B
See also	query metrics show metrics-list stop metrics