A partially managed storage subsystem condition occurs when only one controller was defined or could be reached when the storage subsystem was added or detected. The system provides you several indications of this condition as follows:
When you close the Edit >> Add Device pull-down menu option dialog.
When you attempt to manage a storage subsystem (that is, launch its Subsystem Management Window).
When you select the View >> Partially Managed Devices pull-down menu option.
When you activate the tooltip on a storage subsystem by placing your cursor over the storage subsystem in the Device Tree View. If a storage subsystem is partially managed, it will display "partially managed" in the tooltip.
Important: This tooltip is available only for directly managed storage subsystems (unavailable for host-agent managed storage arrays).
This condition has different causes depending on how the storage subsystem is managed over the network:
If the storage subsystem is managed through each Ethernet connection on the controllers, (directly managed) either the host name or IP address of one of the controllers was not provided, or there was a connection problem.
If the storage subsystem is managed through a host's network connection (host-agent managed), there was a problem detecting one of the controllers in the attached storage subsystem.