Messages Reference Guide

Storage Management Message Reference 77
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, then 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.