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 Storwize® V3500, Storwize V3700, Storwize V5000, Storwize V7000, Storwize V7000 Unified, SAN Volume Controller, and FlashSystem V9000 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®, Spectrum Accelerate, FlashSystem A9000, and FlashSystem A9000R 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.

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