Chapter 6. Maintaining Units
66 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5
Alarms, Errors, and Other Events
3DM provides several levels of detail about alarms, errors, and other events:
•A summary log of all events and notifications on the Alarms page
•A detailed error listing, available for download from the Controller
Details page
•SMART data for individual drives

Viewing Alarms, Errors, and Other Events

The Alarms page in 3DM shows a log of all events (also called Asynchronous
Event Notifications, or AENs) that have occurred on units. These events
include alarms that occur when the 3ware RAID controller requires attention,
such as when a disk unit becomes degraded and is no longer fault tolerant.
They also include SMART notifications and informational notification, such
as when sectors have been repaired during verification.
Alarm messages are categorized into the following levels of severity:
•Errors, shown next to a red box
•Warnings, shown next to a yellow box
•Information, shown next to a blue box
3DM can e-mail notifications of these events to one or more recipients. For
more information, see “Managing E-mail Event Notification” on page 25.
For a listing of the possible messages, see “Error and Notification Messages”
on page 113.
To view alarms
1 Choose Monitor > Alarms.
2 For details about a particular alarm, click it.
A Help window opens with additional information about the alarm.
To see an explanation of a specific item
•Click on the item in the 3DM Alarms page.
A help topic opens with additional information.