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13 Dell Compellent Storage Center Management Pack 3.0 for Microsoft SCOM 2012/R2 Best Practices
4.1.1 Threshold alerts
SCOM only monitors the status of Storage Center objects, and therefore will not discover or report on
threshold alerts created through Enterprise Manager. However, if a defined threshold is met for a Storage
Center object (a volume, for example) and that threshold changes the status of the object, SCOM will
report back on the status change.
4.1.2 Closing alerts
Closing an alert in SCOM does not remove the alert from Storage Center. If an alert still exists on Storage
Center, SCOM will re-discover that alert and display it even if that same alert was previously deleted. To
effectively remove an alert from SCOM, the underlying issue must be resolved on the Storage Center.
Overrides can be created to ignore specific alerts, change the frequency that SCOM queries Storage
Center for alerts, and to only display specific severities. For more information about Overrides, please
refer to Section 5 of this document.
4.2 Replication monitoring
To monitor Storage Center replication in Enterprise Manager both the source and destination Storage
Centers need to be defined. Within the SCOM management pack, replication health status can be viewed
in the Storage Centers view. A listing of all the replications is available from the Replication View under the
Storage Center Replications folder.
Figure 2 Storage Center Replication
Note: Although both the source and destination Storage Centers need to be defined to view Replication
status, SCOM will only show status on the source Storage Center.