Monitoring EMS data collection status

You can monitor the status of your EMS data collection using several PowerShell cmdlets. You can get information about the schedule, storage virtual machine (SVM) target, and status.

Steps

From a PowerShell command line, open the connection by entering:
```
Open-SmConnection
```
To retrieve information about the EMS data collection schedule, enter:
```
Get-SmDataCollectionEmsSchedule
```
To retrieve information about the EMS data collection status, enter:
```
Get-SmDataCollectionEmsStatus
```
To retrieve information about the EMS data collection target, enter:
```
Get-SmDataCollectionEmsTarget
```