User's Manual

60 Quick Access to Storage Status and Tasks
• Power Supply Properties
• Temperature Probe Properties and Tasks
• Virtual Disk Properties and Tasks
Alerts or Events
Storage activity generates alerts or events that are displayed in the Alert Log.
Some alerts indicate normal activity and are displayed for informational
purposes only. Other alerts indicate abnormal activity which should be
addressed immediately. For more information about alerts and their
corrective actions, see the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Messages
Reference Guide at support.dell.com/manuals.
Monitoring Disk Reliability on RAID Controllers
Storage Management supports Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting
Technology (SMART) on physical disks that are SMART-enabled.
SMART performs predictive failure analysis on each disk and sends alerts if a
disk failure is predicted. The RAID controllers check physical disks for failure
predictions and, if found, pass this information to Storage Management.
Storage Management immediately displays an alert icon on the disk. Storage
Management also sends an alert to the Alert Log and the Microsoft Windows
application log.
NOTE: When a controller’s I/O is paused, you do not receive SMART alerts.
NOTE: The PERC 4/SC, 4/DC, 4e/DC, 4/Di, 4e/Si, and 4e/Di controllers do not report
SMART alerts for unassigned or hot spare disks.
Related Information:
• Replacing a Physical Disk Receiving SMART Alerts
Using Alarms to Detect Failures
Some storage components have alarms. When enabled, these alarms alert you
when a component fails. For more information, see the following sections:
• Enable Alarm (Controller)
• Enable Alarm (Enclosure)