Dell PowerStore Monitoring Your System

Events and alerts

Events provide information about changes to the system. Alerts are events that require attention and most alerts indicate that there is a problem with the system. Clicking the description of an alert reveals additional information about the alert.

Active and unacknowledged alerts are displayed in the Alerts card on the dashboard and the Alerts page under Monitoring. You can view and monitor alerts for individual objects in a cluster such as an appliance, storage resource, or virtual machine, from the Alerts card on the details page of the object.

To review events that do not rise to the level of an alert, go to Monitoring > Events.

When you view events and alerts, you can sort the alerts by the columns and filter the alerts by the column categories. The default filters for alerts are:

• Severity—Event and alerts can be filtered by the severity of the event or alert. You can select the severities to display by clicking the Severity filter and selecting one or more severities from the dialog box.
  • Critical—An event has occurred that has a significant impact on the system and must be remedied immediately. For example, a component is missing or has failed and recovery may not be possible.
  • Major—An event has occurred that may have an impact on the system and should be remedied as soon as possible. For example, the last synchronization time for a resource does not match the time that its protection policy indicates.
  • Minor—An event has occurred that you should be aware of but does not have a significant impact on the system. For example, a component is working, but its performance may not be optimum.
  • Info—An event has occurred that does not impact system functions. No action is required. For example, new software is available for download.
• Resource Type—Events and alerts can be filtered by the resource type that is associated with the event or alert. You can select the resource types to display by clicking the Resource Type filter and selecting one or more resource types from the dialog box.
• Acknowledged—Alerts can be filtered by whether the alert is acknowledged or not. When a user acknowledges an alert, the alert is hidden from the default view on the Alerts page. You can view acknowledged alerts by clicking the Acknowledged filter and selecting the Acknowledged check box in the filter dialog box.
  NOTE:Acknowledging an alert does not indicate that the issue is resolved. Acknowledging an alert only indicates that the alert has been acknowledged by a user.
• Cleared—Alerts can be filtered by whether the alert is cleared or not. When an alert is no longer relevant or is resolved, the system clears the alert with no user intervention. Cleared alerts are hidden from the default view on the Alerts page. You can view a cleared alert by clicking the Cleared filter and selecting the Cleared check box in the filter dialog box.