Messages Reference Guide

Storage Management Message Reference 45
Storage Management Message Reference
Storage Management’s alert or event management features let you monitor the health of storage
resources such as controllers, connectors, array disks, and virtual disks.
Alert Monitoring and Logging
The Storage Management Service performs alert monitoring and logging. By default, the Storage
Management Service starts when the managed system starts up. If you stop the Storage
Management Service, then alert monitoring and logging stops. Alert monitoring does the following:
• Updates the status of the storage object that generated the alert.
• Propagates the storage object’s status to all the related higher objects in the storage hierarchy. For
example, the status of a lower-level object will be propagated up to the status displayed on the
Health tab for the top-level storage object.
• Logs an alert into the Alert log and the Windows application log.
• Sends an SNMP trap if the operating system’s SNMP service is installed and enabled.
NOTE: Storage Management does not log alerts regarding the data I/O path. These alerts are logged by the
respective RAID drivers in the system alert log.
For updated information, lookup the Storage Management Online Help and the Dell OpenManage™
Server Administrator Storage Management User’s Guide.
Alert Descriptions and Corrective Actions
The following sections describe alerts generated by the RAID or SCSI controllers supported by
Storage Management. The alerts are displayed in the Server Administrator Alert subtab or through
the Windows Event Viewer. These alerts can also be forwarded as SNMP traps to other applications.
SNMP traps are generated for the alerts listed in the following sections. These traps are included in
the Storage Management management information base (MIB). The SNMP traps for these alerts
use all of the SNMP trap variables. For more information on SNMP support and the MIB, see the
SNMP Reference Guide.
To locate an alert, scroll through the following table to find the alert number displayed on the Server
Administrator Alert tab or search this file for the alert message text or number. See
"Understanding
Event Messages" for more information on severity levels.