Alerting - Overview

The alerting feature enables you to define alerts for storage-related events that occur within your environment. You can define alerts as part of monitoring jobs, or use the Alerting nodes within Disk Manager, Data Manager, and Fabric Manager to define resource-specific alerts.

For example, you can use the Alerting > Computer Alerts node within Data Manager to alert you if a computer's RAM increased or a new disk was detected. You can also define an alert to be triggered if one of your monitoring jobs fails.

Keeping track of alerts

Aperi Storage Manager keeps a log of the alerts that have been triggered and organizes that log according to alert type. See the alert log for more information.

Alerts

The following are the available alert types:

Alert type	What does this alert do?	Where do you define this alert in the user interface?
Storage Subsystem	Use this alert to be notified when a condition is detected on a storage subsystem during a scan, such as the cache increased, a storage subsystem could not be found, etc.	Disk Manager
Computer	Use this alert to be notified when a condition is detected on a computer during a probe, such as RAM increased, a new disk was detected, etc.	Data Manager
Disk	Use this alert to be notified when a condition is detected on a disk during a probe, such as RAM increased, a new disk was detected, etc.	Data Manager
Filesystem	Use this alert to be notified when a condition is detected on a filesystem during a scan, such as freespace is running out, it could not be found, etc.	Data Manager
Fabric	Use this alert to be notified when a condition is detected on a fabric during a probe, such as fabric state changes, fabric property changes, etc.	Fabric Manager
Switch	Use this alert to be notified when a condition is detected on a switch during a probe, such as a switch was discovered, there was a switch blade change, etc.	Fabric Manager
Endpoint Device	Use this alert to be notified when a condition is detected on an endpoint device, such as an endpoint was discovered, endpoint to node change, etc.	Fabric Manager
External	Use this alert to view the external notifications that have been received from outside Aperi Storage Manager. These notifications might include SNMP traps sent to the product, CIM Indications it has received, HBA notifications, etc.
Tape Library	Use this alert to be notified when a condition is detected on a tape library.	Tape Manager

Once you have defined the events or conditions for which you want to be alerted, the product monitors your storage assets for you. When a condition is met and alert is triggered, you can choose to be notified through a number of methods.

Alert notifications