Threshold alerts – HP StorageWorks 2.64 Director Switch User Manual
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If LIN alerts have been enabled for a port in the Configure Ports dialog box, the Port Properties
dialog box contains a short description of the latest incident in the Link Incident field. Or, if there
are no active incidents,
None
displays. The system writes all link incidents to the Link Incident Log.
If you enable LIN alerts for a port in the Element Manager Configure Ports dialog box, configure
e-mail notification through HAFM, and enable E-Mail Notification through the Element Manager
Maintenance menu, you will receive e-mail notification of LIN alerts.
NOTE:
The e-mail notification of LIN alerts is available to all users; no feature permissions are
imposed.
Although you can clear the attention indicator in the Hardware view and the alert description in the
Port Properties dialog box manually, they may also be cleared by actions outside of your control,
such as rebooting the HAFM appliance.
You can clear the link incident indicator in the Hardware view and the description in the Link
Incident field manually. To manually clear the attention indicator (yellow triangle), right-click the
port with the yellow triangle and select Clear Link Incident Alert(s) from the menu. In the Clear Link
Incident Alert(s) dialog box, select the appropriate option and click OK. Be aware that clearing the
incident indicator clears it for everyone monitoring the system. If there are no link incident alerts
enabled for a port, no actions occur.
Threshold alerts
A threshold alert notifies Element Manager users when the transmit (Tx) or receive (Rx) throughput
reaches specific values for director ports or port types (E_Ports or F_Ports).
To display the Configure Threshold Alerts dialog box, click Configure > Threshold Alerts. Use this
dialog box to configure criteria for generating a threshold alert.
One criteria that you must configure is a throughput value that equals a specific percentage of the
port’s total throughput capacity. You also provide a time interval during which throughput is
measured and a time interval during which that throughput value must remain constant. When
throughput reaches the threshold value and remains constant for the specified time, an alert is
generated.
Threshold alerts appear in the following manner in the Element Manager:
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An attention indicator (yellow triangle) displays on the port in the Port Card view.
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An attention indicator (yellow triangle) displays on the port card in the Hardware view.
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An attention indicator (yellow triangle) displays in the Alert column in the Port List view.
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An attention indicator (yellow triangle) displays by the Threshold Alerts field in the Port
Properties dialog box.
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Detailed threshold alert data displays in the Threshold Alert Log.
For detailed procedures to configure threshold alerts, see ”