Administrator Guide

Acknowledge Storage Center Alerts
Alerts can be acknowledged to indicate to the Storage Center that you have read the alert message and are aware of the problem.
1 Click the Monitoring view
2 Click the Storage Alerts tab.
3 Select the Storage Center alerts to acknowledge, then click Acknowledge. The Acknowledge Alert dialog box opens.
NOTE: The option to acknowledge an alert will not appear if an alert has already been acknowledged.
4 Click OK to acknowledge the Storage Center alerts displayed in the Acknowledge Alert dialog box.
Send Storage Center Alerts and Indications to the Data
Collector Immediately
By default, the Data Collector retrieves alerts and indications from a Storage Center at a regular interval. If you want alerts and indications
to be displayed in
Storage Manager immediately when they are triggered, congure a Storage Center to send them to the Data Collector.
1 Click the Storage view.
2 In the Storage view, select the Storage Center that you want to congure to send alerts and indications to the Data Collector.
3 In the Summary tab, click Edit Settings. The Edit Storage Center Settings dialog box opens.
4 Click the Alerts and Logs tab.
5 Select the Send Alerts to Data Collector checkbox.
6 Click OK.
Events Alerts
Events are messages that have been generated by events in Storage Manager.
You can view events on the Events tab or congure Storage Manager to email you when events occur.
Storage Manager Event Types
Storage Manager events are categorized by functionality and area.
The following table lists the types of Storage Manager events.
Event Name
Description
Automated Report Generation
Errors
An error occurred when generating or storing an automated report
Data Collector Exception An exception occurred on the Data Collector
Database Error Errors interacting with the database
Failed Report Generation The Data Collector service failed to generate a report
Failed to Startup The Data Collector service failed to start
FluidFS Cluster Down The Data Collector cannot communicate with the FluidFS cluster
FluidFS Errors Errors returned from Dell FluidFS clusters
NAS Server Errors Errors returned by the NAS server
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