Dell PowerVault MD3420 - Manual (Page 283)

Set Event Alert Filtering
Description
The set event alert commands manage alert event notification by either disabling a specific critical event
alert from being sent, or by enabling notification about a specific critical event alert to be sent. To prevent
notification about a specific critical event alert from being sent, you block it. To enable notification about
a specific critical event alert to be sent, you unblock it.
The storage management software supports different priorities of events (such as Informational, Warning,
Critical). When you define your storage array, you can configure alerts and define how the event alerts
are managed. If you have configured the storage array to send alerts, then a notification is sent to a
designated recipient when a Critical event occurs. That notification can be one or all of the following
types:
• email
• syslog
• trap notifications
The set event alert CLI commands work on a single storage array. When you run the commands on a
storage array, only that storage array is affected by the commands. Other storage arrays that have not
had the CLI command run against them have the default behavior.
Blocking an event alert does not prevent the event from being posted to the system event log. All events
will continue to be posted to the event log.
Syntax
Syntax to Block an Event Alert
set blockEventAlert eventType
Syntax to Unblock an Event Alert
set unBlockEventAlert eventType
Parameters
Parameter Description
eventType
This parameter is the integer value for the event.
Enter the event value in a hexadecimal format, for
example, 0x280D. Always begin the hexadecimal
value with 0x to indicate that it is in hexadecimal
format. If you do not use 0x, the value will be
interpreted as a decimal and converted to a
hexadecimal value, before applying the block or
unblock command. This can cause an incorrect
event to be blocked or unblocked.
An error is displayed if you enter an invalid event.
Set Foreign Physical Disk to Native
A physical disk is considered to be native when it is a part of a storage array disk group. A physical disk is
considered to be foreign when it does not belong to a storage array disk group or when it fails to be
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