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 identies the specic 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-dened names for virtual disks and other components. Each environment is unique in its storage
conguration and user-dened names. To receive an accurate alert message, that the Storage Management service must be able to insert
the environment-specic names of storage components into an alert message.
This environment-specic 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.
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