Monitoring events
This section describes how to monitor events for IBM® storage systems.
About this task
Events are displayed differently in the management packs:
- For IBM Flex System™ V7000, Storwize® V7000, V7000 Unified,
V5000, V3700, V3500, and SAN Volume Controller systems, Information and Configuration events
are displayed.Note: To learn about SAN Volume Controller Information or Configuration events, refer to the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller Troubleshooting Guide available on the IBM SAN Volume Controller Information Center (pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/svc/ic/index.jsp). In the guide, refer to the sections: ’Informational events’ and ’Configuration event IDs’.
- For XIV® systems, all event levels are displayed: Information, Error, and Warning.
- For the DS8000® systems, events are not displayed.
Note: By default, the list of events is refreshed
every 10 minutes. You can change the default interval as explained
in Setting the event collection intervals.
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Procedure
- To view more details regarding a specific event, select
its row. A detailed description of the event is displayed
in the Event Details pane (below the events list).
Figure 1. Event Monitoring 
- To view the raw data of the selected event, click View
Event Data. The XML code is displayed
in your system's default browser or XML viewer, as shown in the following
figure.
Figure 2. Event data in XML format 