12 Event Management

This chapter describes the following:

About Event Manager” on page 409

Viewing Event Details” on page 413

Clearing Events” on page 415

Configuring the Clearing of Events” on page 415

Configuring the Deletion of Events” on page 416

Deleting Events” on page 417

Sorting Events” on page 417

Changing the CLARiiON Event Polling Interval” on page 417

Brocade Events” on page 418

Filtering Events” on page 420

Enabling the Rank Column in Event Manager” on page 427

About Event Manager

Event Manager lets you view, clear, sort and filter events from managed elements. An event can be anything that occurs on the element, such as a device connected to a Brocade switch has gone off-line. It provides the following information about the events:

ID- The identification number assigned to the event

Element - The source of the event. An element can be a switch, host, application, fabric or anything else on the network.

Severity - Provides the severity level

Time - The time the event was recorded.

Summary Text - A brief explanation of the event. When you click the summary text, the details of the event are displayed.

Element Type - Specifies whether the source of this event is an application, a host, etc.

Rank - The cost implication. This column is hidden until you enable it, as described in Enabling the Rank Column in Event Manager” on page 427.

The top of the Event Manager pane provides a subtotal of the severity of the events and the number of events from the different element types. For example, in the following figure, zero critical events were found, but 23 events were found to have a severity level of minor and one of “Warning”. The definition for each severity level varies according to the type of element.

Figure 61 Event Manager Summary

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