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Alert Messages
Dell™OpenManage™ServerAdministratorStorageManagementUser'sGuide
Alert Monitoring and Logging
Viewing Alerts
Alert Severity Levels
Alert Message Format with Substitution Variables
Configuring an Automated Response to Alerts
Alert Message Change History
SNMP Support for Storage Management Alerts
Alert Descriptions and Corrective Actions
Storage Management's alert or event management features let you monitor the health of storage resources such as controllers, enclosures, physical disks,
and virtual disks.
Alert Monitoring and Logging
Storage Management 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:
l Updates the status of the storage object that generated the alert.
l 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.
l Logs an alert in the Alert log and the operating system (OS) application log.
l Sends an SNMP trap if the operating system's SNMP service is installed and enabled.
Viewing Alerts
StorageManagementgeneratesalertsthatareaddedtotheWindowsapplicationalertlogandtotheDellOpenManage™ServerAdministratorAlertlog.To
view these alerts in Server Administrator:
1. Select the System object in the tree view.
2. Select the Logs tab.
3. Select the Alert subtab.
You can also view these alerts in the Microsoft®Windows®Event Viewer.
Every alert consists of the following:
l Severity — Displays the severity of alert.
l ID — Displays the alert number. You can use this number to locate the alert description in the Storage Management online help.
l Date and Time — Displays the date and time when Storage Management logged the alert.
l Category — Displays the service that generated the alert.
l Description — Provides a brief description of the alert. To expand or collapse the alert description, click the Description column heading.
Alert Severity Levels
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.