Chapter 10: Monitoring Controllers And Their Attached Devices; Alert Delivery Methods; Vivaldi Log/Megaraid Storage Manager Log - Lenovo ThinkServer RD650 User Manual

12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide
March 2014

Chapter 10: Monitoring Controllers and Their Attached Devices

This chapter explains how to use the MegaRAID Storage Manager software to monitor the status of drives, virtual
drives, and other storage devices.
The MegaRAID Storage Manager software enables you to monitor the activity of all the controllers present in the
system and the devices attached to them.
The MegaRAID Storage Manager software does a background check every one hour to verify if the controller and the
system time are in synch. If the time difference between the controller and the system is more than 90 seconds, the
MegaRAID Storage Manager software synchronizes the time so that the controller time and the system time are in
synch.
When you perform an operation on devices (such as the creation of a new virtual drive) or when devices automatically
go from an optimal state to a different state (such as a created virtual drive goes to a degraded state or a Battery
Backup Unit goes bad), the MegaRAID Storage Manager software gets those events from the controller and gives a
notification to you, using different alert delivery methods.
10.1

Alert Delivery Methods

Based on the severity level (Information, Warning, Critical and Fatal), the default alert delivery methods change. By
default, each severity level has one or more alert delivery methods configured for it, as shown in the following table.
To modify these alert delivery methods, see
follows:

Vivaldi Log/MegaRAID Storage Manager Log


System Log

Pop-up Notification

Email Notification

Table 55 Severity Level and Default Alert Delivery Methods
Severity Level
Information
Warning
Critical
Fatal
10.1.1 Vivaldi Log/MegaRAID Storage Manager Log
By default, all the severity events appear in the Vivaldi log/MegaRAID Storage Manager log and are displayed at the
bottom of the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu window. Each message that appears in this log has a severity
level that indicates the importance of the event (severity), a date and timestamp (when it occurred), and a brief
description, as show in the following figure.
Default Alert Delivery Method
Vivaldi log/MegaRAID Storage Manager log and System log
Vivaldi log/MegaRAID Storage Manager log and System log
Vivaldi log/MegaRAID Storage Manager log, System log, and
Popup Notification
Vivaldi log/MegaRAID Storage Manager log, System log, Popup
Notification, and Email Notification
Configuring Alert Notifications. The different alert delivery methods are as
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Meaning
Informational message. No user action is
necessary.
Some component might be close to a failure
point.
A component has failed, but the system has not
lost data.
A component has failed, and data loss has
occurred or will occur.
Alert Delivery Methods