IMPORTANT: The appliance maintains a tasks database that holds information for approximately 6 month’s worth of tasks or 50,000 tasks. If the tasks database exceeds 50,000 tasks, blocks of 500 tasks are deleted until the count is fewer than 50,000. Tasks older than 6 months are removed from the database.

The tasks database is different from the stored alerts.24.3.1.2 Activity states

Activity

State

Description

 

 

 

Alert

Active

The issue or problem still exists

 

 

A resource’s active alerts help determine its health status.

 

 

Active alerts contribute to the count summaries.

 

 

 

 

Locked

An Active alert that was set (locked) by an internal resource manager.

 

 

You cannot manually clear a Locked alert. Examine the corrective action

 

 

associated with an alert to determine how to fix the problem. After the problem

 

 

is fixed, the resource manager moves the alert to the Active state. At that

 

 

time, you can clear or delete the alert.

 

 

A resource’s locked alerts contribute to its overall status.

 

 

 

 

Cleared

The alert is no longer a concern and does not affect the resource health status.

 

 

Cleared activities are not counted in the displayed summaries.

 

 

 

Task

Completed

The task started and ran to completion.

 

 

 

 

Running

The task started and is running, but has not yet completed.

 

 

 

 

Pending

The task has not yet run.

 

 

 

 

Interrupted

The task ran, but was interrupted; for example, it could be waiting for a

 

 

resource

 

 

 

 

Error

A task failed or generated a Critical alert.

 

 

Investigate Error states immediately.

 

 

 

 

Warning

An event occurred that might require your attention. It can mean that something

 

 

is not correct within the appliance.

 

 

Investigate Warning states immediately.

 

 

 

24.3.1.3 Activity statuses

Status

Description

 

 

Critical

A critical alert message was received, or a task failed or was interrupted.

 

Investigate Critical status activities immediately.

 

 

Warning

An event occurred that might require your attention. It can mean that something is not correct

 

within the appliance and it needs your attention.

 

Investigate Warning status activities immediately.

 

 

OK

For an alert, OK indicates normal behavior or information from a resource.

 

For a task, OK indicates that it completed successfully.

 

 

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