Event Severity Levels

The array uses the standard alert system that supports three basic levels of severity. Depending on the level of the event that has been logged, immediate action could be required.

Table 1. Event Severity Levels
Severity Level Description Examples
All All events are shown, regardless of severity. Manual intervention may or may not be needed.
Critical An event has occurred that requires immediate attention. Data loss or hardware damage may occur if action is not taken quickly.

Critical alerts also trigger email notification, defined on the Administration tab.

The system has reached space capacity.

A drive has failed.

Warning An event has occurred that might impact system performance. Action will likely be necessary, but no damage will occur if the action is not taken immediately. A scheduled snapshot was not completed successfully.

A drive is experiencing write errors.

Info An event has occurred that does not require action to be taken and does not affect system performance. This level of event is useful for troubleshooting or for determining system trends. The administrator password was changed.

A controller was restarted.