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Storage Management Alert 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 Disk 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 are propagated up to the status displayed on the Health
tab for the top-level storage object.
• Logs an alert into the Alert log and Microsoft Windows application log.
• Sends an Simple Network Management Protocol (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.
Viewing Alerts
Storage Management generates alerts that are added to the Windows application alert log and to the
Server Administrator Alert log. 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 Windows Event Viewer. Every alert consists of the following:
• Severity — Shows the severity of alert.
• Date and Time — Date and time when Storage Management logged the alert.
• Description — A brief description of the alert. To expand or collapse the alert description, click
the
Description column heading.
Alert Severity Levels
Each alert message in the Storage Management alert log has a severity level which indicates the nature of
the alert and is displayed in the Severity field of the alert message. The severity level indicates the nature
of the alert.
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