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 Storwize® V3500, Storwize V3700, Storwize V5000, Storwize V7000, Storwize V7000 Unified, SAN Volume Controller, and FlashSystem™ V9000 systems, Error events are displayed in SCOM as
Warning alerts.
Note:
To increase or decrease alerting regarding certain events of Storwize V3500, Storwize V3700, Storwize V5000, Storwize V7000, Storwize V7000 Unified, SAN Volume
Controller, and FlashSystem V9000 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®, Spectrum Accelerate, FlashSystem A9000, and
FlashSystem A9000R 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, Spectrum Accelerate,
FlashSystem A9000, and FlashSystem A9000R 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
