Dell PowerVault MD 32XX/36XX Series Storage Arrays CLI Guide

The MD storage management software has four event levels: Critical, Informational, Warning, and Debug. You can configure the MD storage management software to send alert notifications for all of these event levels or only for certain event levels.

A background task called the persistent monitor runs independently of the MD storage management software and monitors the occurrence of events on all of the managed storage arrays. The persistent monitor is installed automatically with the MD storage management software. When an event occurs, alert notifications in the form of emails and SNMP trap messages are sent to the destination addresses that are specified in the Configure Alerts dialog. For more information about how to specify the destination addresses.

When the persistent monitor starts for the first time, a properties file is created in the directory where the MD storage management software files are located. The properties file can be configured to enable or disable local logging in the Windows and UNIX operating systems. By default, local logging is enabled in the properties file.

When local logging is enabled in the Windows operating system, the persistent monitor logs the event information in the Windows Event Log file. When local logging is enabled in the UNIX operating system, the persistent monitor logs the event information in the syslog file. The properties file can also be configured to enable or disable remote syslog notification. You must restart the persistent monitor service after configuring the properties file for the changes to take effect.

You can configure the MD storage management software to notify only the event levels that you specify. For example, you can configure alert notifications only for Critical and Warning events.