Reference Guide

Storage Management Message Reference

The Server Administrator 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.

Topics:

• Alert Monitoring and Logging

• Alert Message Format with Substitution Variables

• Alert Descriptions and Corrective Actions

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 is propagated up to the status displayed on the Health tab for the top-level Storage object.

• Logs an alert in the alert log and the operating system application log.

• Sends an SNMP trap if the operating system’s SNMP service is installed and enabled.

NOTE:

Server Administrator 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.

See the Server Administrator Storage Management Online Help for updated information.

Alert Message Format with Substitution Variables

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. Each environment is unique in its storage

configuration and user-defined names. To receive an accurate alert message, that the Storage Management service must be able to insert

the environment-specific names of storage components into an alert message.

This environment-specific information is inserted after the alert message text as shown for alert 2127.

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 symbol in the Storage Management

documentation. An example of such an alert is shown for alert 2334.

Table 3. Alert Message Format

Alert ID Message Text Displayed in the Storage

Management Service 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)

The variables required to complete the message vary depending on the type of storage object and whether the storage object is in a SCSI

or SAS configuration. The following table identifies the possible variables used to identify each storage object.

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.

NOTE: A, B, C and X, Y, Z in the following examples are variables representing the storage object name or number.

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