This section describes how to monitor alerts for IBM® storage systems.
About this task
You can monitor two types of alerts:
Health monitoring alerts – Alerts about the health state
of the monitored storage components. Health monitoring alerts are
applicable to all the supported IBM storage
systems. For example, an alert is created when the health state of
a certain component changes from Healthy to Critical.
Event log alerts – Alerts about system events that are
defined as error or warning events. Event log alerts are not applicable
to DS8000® systems, but
are applicable to all the other supported IBM storage systems and are monitored as follows:
For IBM Flex System® 7000, Storwize® V7000, V7000 Unified,
V5000, V3700, V3500, and SAN Volume Controller systems, Error events
are displayed in SCOM as Warning alerts.
Note:
To increase or decrease alerting regarding certain events of IBM Flex System 7000, Storwize V7000, V7000 Unified,
V5000, V3700, V3500, and SAN Volume Controller systems, change the
severity level of any event as explained in Changing event severity levels.
For more information about SAN Volume Controller error 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 section: ’Error event IDs and error codes’.
For XIV® systems, Major and Critical events
are displayed in SCOM as Critical alerts, while Minor and Warning events
are displayed in SCOM as Warning alerts.
Note: The alert severity level of XIV system events cannot be modified.
Procedure
To view more details regarding a specific alert, select
its row. A detailed description of the alert is displayed
in the Alert Details pane (below the alerts list).Figure 1. Alert Monitoring
