Generating Component-Specific Event Grids

The Storage Automated Diagnostic Environment generates component-specific event grids that describe the severity of an event, tell whether action is required, provide a description of the event, and recommended action. Refer to Chapters 5 through 9 of this troubleshooting guide for component-specific event grids.

To Customize an Event Report

1.Choose the Event Grid link on the the Storage Automated Diagnostic Environment Help menu.

2.Select the criteria from the Storage Automated Diagnostic Environment event grid, like the one shown in in TABLE 3-1.

TABLE 3-1Event Grid Sorting Criteria

Category

Component

Event Type

Severity

Action

 

 

 

 

 

• All (default)

• All

• Agent Deinstall

 

Yes—This

• Sun StorEdge

(default)

• Agent Install

 

event is

A3500FC array

• Backplane

• Alarm

critical (error)

actionable

• Sun StorEdge A5000

• Controller

• FC +

and is sent to

 

array

• Disk

• Alternate Master -

 

the RSS/SRS

• Agent

• Interface

• Audit

 

providers

• Host

• LUN

• Communication Established

 

 

• Message

• Port

• Communication Lost

alert (warning)

No—This

• Sun Switch

• Power

• Discovery

 

• Sun StorEdge T3+

 

• Heartbeat

 

event is

array

 

• Insert Component

 

nonactionable

• Tape

 

• Location Change

system down

 

• Virtualization engine

 

• Patch Info

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Quiesce End

 

 

 

 

• Quiesce Start

 

 

 

 

• Removal

 

 

 

 

• Remove Component

 

 

 

 

• State Change +

 

 

 

 

(from offline to online)

 

 

 

 

• State Change -

 

 

 

 

(from online to offline)

 

 

 

 

• Statistics

 

 

 

 

• Backup

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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