Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide v6.1.0 (53-10000610-02, June 2008)

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The Acked column value changes from No to Yes, the Acked By column value displays your user
name, and the Acked Time column value displays the time that you acknowledged the alert.
Alert resolution
The Resolved column in the Alerts tab indicates whether an alert is resolved.
You cannot manually resolve Fabric Manager alerts. All alerts within Fabric Manager are
automatically resolved either when the issue no longer exists or the baseline has changed so that
the alert is no longer valid. See Table 9 on page 96 for information about alert resolution scenarios.
You can enable automatic deletion of resolved alerts after a period of time using the procedure
described in “Alert removal.”
Alert removal
You can delete Fabric Manager alerts manually from the Alerts tab or you can enable automatic
alert deletion. By default, automatic alert deletion is disabled.
You can delete only alerts that have been resolved. Any resolved alerts are identified with a Yes
value in the Resolved column of the Alerts tab.
You can configure Fabric Manager to automatically delete resolved alerts after a period of time.
Deleting alerts manually
1. Display the alerts for the SAN, fabric, switch, or switch group, as described in “Alert monitoring”
on page 93.
2. Right-click the alert you want to delete and click Delete from the context menu.
Use Shift-click or Ctrl-click to select multiple alerts.
The alert is deleted and removed from the Alerts table.
Automatic deletion of alerts
When you enable automatic alert deletion, you specify the time period after which resolved alerts
are deleted. The options are 60, 90, or 120 days; the default is 90 days. For example, if you set the
alert history period to 60 days, a resolved alert is deleted 60 days after the date on which it was
resolved.
Only resolved alerts are deleted (alerts with a Yes in the Resolved column of the Alerts tab).
Automatic alert deletion is triggered once every 24 hours; enabling automatic alert deletion does
not immediately trigger alert deletion.
Enabling automatic deletion of resolved alerts
1. Select Edit > Preferences.
The Options dialog box displays.
2. Expand Server specific and click Alerts History.
The Alerts History pane displays (see Figure 66 on page 101).
3. Check the Purge check box to enable automatic alert deletion.