User's Manual

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The alert severity levels are as follows:
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Alert Message Format with Substitution Variables
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When you view an alert in the Server Administrator alert log, the alert identifies the specific components such as the controller name or the virtual disk name
to which the alert applies. In an actual operating environment, a storage system can have many combinations of controllers and disks as well as user-defined
names for virtual disks and other components. Because each environment is unique in its storage configuration and user-defined names, an accurate alert
message requires that Storage Management be able to insert the environment-specific names of storage components into an alert message.
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This environment-specific information is inserted after the alert message text as shown for alert 2127 in the table below.
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For other alerts, the alert message text is constructed from information passed directly from the controller (or another storage component) to the Alert Log. In
these cases, the variable information is represented with a % (percent sign) in the Storage Management documentation. An example of is shown the following
table.
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The variables required to complete the message vary depending on the type of storage object. The following table identifies the possible variables used to
identify each storage object.
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Alert
Severity
Component Status
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OK/Normal/Informational. No action is required. The alert is provided for informational purposes and does not indicate an error condition. For
example, the alert may indicate the normal start or stop of an operation.
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Warning/Noncritical. A component requires attention. This alert indicates a potential problem, but does not necessarily mean that the system
has currently lost data or is nonfunctional. For example, a Warning/Noncritical alert may indicate that a component (such as a temperature
probe in an enclosure) has crossed a warning threshold.
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Critical/Failure/Error. A component has either failed or failure is imminent. This alert indicates a serious problem such as data loss or a loss of
function. For example, a Critical/Failure/Error alert may indicate that a physical disk has failed.
Alert
ID
Message Text Displayed in Storage Management
Documentation
Message Text Displayed in the Alert Log with Variable Information Supplied
2127
Background Initialization started
Background Initialization started: Virtual Disk 3 (Virtual Disk 3) Controller 1 (PERC 5/E
Adapter)
2334
Controller event log %
Controller event log: Current capacity of the battery is above threshold.: Controller 1
(PERC 5/E Adapter)
NOTE: Some alert messages relating to an enclosure or an enclosure component, such as a fan or EMM, are generated by the controller when the
enclosure or enclosure component ID cannot be determined.
Storage Object
Message Variables
A, B, C and X, Y, Z in the following examples are variables representing the storage object name or number.
Controller
Message Format: Controller A (Name)
Message Format: Controller A
Example: 2326 A foreign configuration has been detected.: Controller 1 (PERC 5/E Adapter)
NOTE: The controller name is not always displayed.
Battery
Message Format: Battery X Controller A
Example: 2174 The controller battery has been removed: Battery 0 Controller 1
SAS Physical Disk
Message Format: Physical Disk X:Y:Z Controller A, Connector B
Example: 2049 Physical disk removed: Physical Disk 0:0:14 Controller 1, Connector 0
Virtual Disk
Message Format: Virtual Disk X (Name) Controller A (Name)
Message Format: Virtual Disk X Controller A
Example: 2057 Virtual disk degraded: Virtual Disk 11 (Virtual Disk 11) Controller 1 (PERC 5/E Adapter)
NOTE: The virtual disk and controller names are not always displayed.