Reference Guide

Storage Management Message Reference 59
Storage Management Message Reference
The Dell OpenManage™ Server Administrator Storage Management’s alert or event management
features let you monitor the health of storage resources such as controllers, enclosures, physical
disks, and virtual disks.
Alert Monitoring and Logging
The Storage Management Service performs alert monitoring and logging. By default, the Storage
Management Service starts when the managed system starts up. If you stop the Storage
Management Service, the alert monitoring and logging stops. Alert monitoring does the following:
• Updates the status of the storage object that generated the alert.
• Propagates the storage object’s status to all the related higher objects in the storage hierarchy. For
example, the status of a lower-level object will be propagated up to the status displayed on the
Health tab for the top-level storage object.
• Logs an alert in the Alert log and the operating system (OS) application log.
• Sends an SNMP trap if the operating system’s SNMP service is installed and enabled.
NOTE: Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Storage Management does not log alerts regarding the data
I/O path. These alerts are logged by the respective RAID drivers in the system alert log.
See the Storage Management Online Help and the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Storage
Management User’s Guide for updated information.
Alert Message Format with Substitution Variables
When you view an alert in the Server Administrator alert log, the alert identifies the specific
components such as the controller name or the virtual disk name to which the alert applies. In an
actual operating environment, a storage system can have many combinations of controllers and disks
as well as user-defined names for virtual disks and other components. Because each environment is
unique in its storage configuration and user-defined names, an accurate alert message requires that
the Storage Management Service be able to insert the environment-specific names of storage
components into an alert message.
This environment-specific information is inserted after the alert message text as shown for
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