Dell 7.4 manual Alert Monitoring and Logging, Alert Message Format with Substitution Variables

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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.

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.

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